Pigeons......

Hi all,

Can anyone advise me on how to get rid of pigeons....Everytime I return to our house in spain for a break I have to spend hours cleaning the terraces and pool area removing poo!!!! tons of it everywhere. And nests on top of my A/C units.....even baby pigeons on one occasion. 

I hate them, my 16 month grandson ended up in hospital because he ate some!!!!!! poo thats is not pigeon.

Any advise would be fantastic

thanks 

Hi Sterling

A piece of lead behind the ear normaly gets rid of pigeons, you put it there with a 12 bore!

Regards

Tech

Hi Sterling - this is a huge problem in our urbanisation and I'm afraid Tech's solution, though tempting, is illegal!

We have blocks of apartments back to back with small openings in the gallerias which provide the perfect environment for nesting pigeons.  We can't net the area because the blocks are at different heights and we can't put spikes on all the edges or close up the openings because most of the properties have been repossessed and the banks don't maintain them.  Even if we wanted to pay for spikes to be installed on their behalf, we can't get access to the back of the buildings as the access is through the properties themselves!

I read about a sonic device with a motion censor which gives out a cry of a pigeon in distress or a bird of prey, so we may explore something like that which doesn't mean we need to access every property.  We have a pest control company involved but so far they have just told us what won't work!!

So those are your options - nets, spikes or a sonic system. 

Good luck!

Find a friendly hawk owner who may fly his bird as a deterent.

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Sterling, I hope you wear a mask when cleaning up the mess! Pigeon poo is very dangerous to humans, it can cause serious respiritory complaints, so always wear a mask when clearing it up. Cheers Joanniemac

how about putting out a large piece of stone with pigeon food on it covered in pepper?, then they'll eat the food and sneeze so hard they'll bash their brains out on the stone!

.....sorry

philevens idea sounds good?. A scarer like farmers use would probably work well?. They are loud though as 12 bore blanks are often used and might scare the living daylights out of people as well as pigeons?. I don't know if a quieter version is available that's still loud enough to frighten off pigeons?