How can I get rid of pigeons that fly onto my patio. I let them build a nest once eons ago and now the family keeps coming back. I hate them . . . they hoo, hoo all the time and have lice and diseases. I've thought of a pellet gun.
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shammers avoiding the holidays
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Windex!
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Preventing access to food is a key to dispersing pigeons. When feeding smaller birds, cage in all food so that pigeons cannot reach it. Maximum effective mesh size will be 2.5 inches. Pigeon-proof feeders are commercially available. Netting can prevent pigeons accessing recesses, buildings etc. Ledges can be protected by fitting specially designed spike strips or metal coil, or converting the ledge to a slope. Be careful with your choice of deterrent. Those designed for use on agricultural land are unlikely to be suited to urban or suburban context. Any audible deterrent will not be pigeon specific, but is just as likely to scare any bird within its effective range. Furthermore, it may become a serious nuisance to your neighbours.
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please dont kill them :-( there must be easier ways to get rid of them - as mentioned above - i.e. gettting rid of thier food - simply scaring them away or something :-(
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i kill them with a pellet gun when there are to many then they dont come back lol
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People around my neighborhood put up plastic owls to scare off birds .Not sure if it works but alot owls seting around .
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Actually a statue of a hawk or owl's works. Although the real life hawks work great. We had pigeon and squirrel problem until two hawks where placed in our are neighborhood, now we have no problems....not even one pigeon. Although the squirrels are still here but in far fewer numbers.
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Here in Montreal, there are vast numbers of pigeons. The cheap plastic owls do not work very well, but the ones with a small motion detector that triggers the head to turn back and forth while it emits a "Whooo Whooo" work very well ... the cheap plain plastic ones are only $6.00 ... the ones with the motion sensors and the spinning head & hooting noise are expensive at $50.00 and you have to run a cord and plug them in (some use batteries). __________ Then there are the ultrasonic screamers ... these are designed to repell mice, rats, most insects, and birds ... humans can not hear the high piched noise, but dogs and cats find it very irritating, and it drives away the unwanted birds, insects, and rodents. Again, these things need electricity.
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