Getting Rid of Pigeons?

bordercars

Col.Mastard wrote: »

So you can Legally shoot them with a BB gun, if their in your garden?

i would hope not. at a summer bar b que the hosts son got an air rifle out, fairly powerful and shot a pidg, hit its ar*e it flew to next doors. i was upset in so much as, they had not killed it or knew of it's fate. dead no problem, pellet in the bum , what happens. blood poision from the lead, slow death from the injury or pecked by other birds in the blood area.
im not for or against shooting them, would prefer shooting for food not just to get rid. BUT if you shoot you must be sure of a clean kill.

carlsberggal

We were plagued by pidgeons years ago and they would all congregate on our roof aswell, when we had a new roof the builders cemented on the chimney a model of a bird of prey and they all went away!!

jamela

I would not advise shooting pigeons. Legally you can only shoot them if they are proving a health and safety risk. Check out www. bird-stop . co.uk (Obv no gaps) for some great legal ways of getting rid of them. I bought some spikes and decoy owl from them recently and it worked a treat.

olly300

Mutter wrote: »

They can't then be Wood Pidgeons, are they? Or town/ferals?

The Wood Pidgeons are so well mannered and gentle. They just hang around beneath the feeders on the trees

And if you walk under them they open fire and you get covered with bird cr*p.

I think the OP is posting about feral pigeons that are a pest.

However where I live the bird pests are parakeets, due to the noise they make, and crows, due to the fact they bully any bird that goes for a feed and try to eat other birds young.

The number of feral pigeons has decreased due to anti-pigeon devices being put on bridges etc where they use to roast, and the fact that the local councils all have bye-laws that they enforce which means you are not allowed to feed them. In fact if you put food down for the birds you are likely to get squirrels eating most of it.

sunflower76

My dad shoots them and I eat them. They're very tasty! Woodpigeons, of course, not town pigeons.

wssla00

I have heard that if you get a picture of an eagle or a bird like that especially with a close up of its eye if you place that somewhere close to their roosting place they wont land. Or you can buy a plastic owl which does it too

victoria_stiles

It is not humanity to kill the pigeons. I know pigeons are pests as they carries more than 60 diseases. There are many human ways to get rid of them, you can use bird repellers to keep them away. You can use spikes in order to get rid of them. You can also use some other home remedies to keep them away. As they really works and do not cost anything.

hazelc56

I am working on getting rid of 8 pigeons at the moment.Tried a few of the things above but i can only blame myself for continuing to put food out in the hopes that the sparrows and other smaller birds manage to get some of it.However my next move is to take the food i have been putting out in the backyard and garden to somewhere else.After all there are birds in other places who need food just as much as the ones who frequent my area and besides, chances are that the ones that do fly around my place are also flying around the area nearby.My logic in this is that at least some birds will get fed and they dont necessarily have to be in my own backyard so to speak.Hopefully these 8 crafty pigeons will eventually get the blooming hint.I somtimes feel im in a well known Alfred Hitchcock film when i see them all sitting on the gutters peering at me and waiting and waiting and waiting.............................!!!!!

ALIBOBSY

One of our neighbours has racing pigeons in a loft at the end of his garden and oddly they don't seem to come in our garden (even before we had chickens and cats they didn't).

I wonder if it is because we are so close to where they live they tend to fly over us rather than bother to land?

Semi rural here so not really any feral pigeons, but the gulls are a pain-although they will only go for bread in the front garden, not feeders or bread in the back.

ali x

hazelc56

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

One of our neighbours has racing pigeons in a loft at the end of his garden and oddly they don't seem to come in our garden (even before we had chickens and cats they didn't).

I wonder if it is because we are so close to where they live they tend to fly over us rather than bother to land?

Semi rural here so not really any feral pigeons, but the gulls are a pain-although they will only go for bread in the front garden, not feeders or bread in the back.

ali x

dunno if this has any relevance to it but i think racing pigeons are also known as "homing pigeons" and tend to go to their own territory....suppose where they get fed, watered and kept warm.I also think the 8 pigeons as i mentioned earlier post THINK they are homing pigeons as they are still hanging around my back yard.I have stopped putting food out but they just cannot take the hint.:D