Problem pigeons - how to repel them

Pigeons are trying to dwell on my friends balcony. she don´t like it,. is there a quick fix for this? I can be a hero with your help.
thanks in advance.
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Try this site on Pigeon Repelling Techniques. Best and most humane fix is to make the ledge inaccessible or unappealing for a while until they go elsewhere ...You can also get a cat...

Feed them an Alka Seltzer... pigeons can't burp or bottom burp so they explode from the gas. Although it's illegal in Germany to feed pigeons..

is it a bird?
is it a plane?
No, it's...

Anti-Pigeon Man !!

Pigeons of Munich - your days are numbered !!

@UrbanAngel.For an Angel thats an awfully nasty idea !!

You buy a plastic raven. Put it on your balcony and the pigeons don't come near it. Fixed.

Ok, I´m sold on the plastic raven. where to buy it? thanks in advance. this is definitly bier worthy at Bondi´s

Obi, Toom, that kinda place.

Airgun.

I had (hopefully past tense) some pairs nesting in the rain gutter above my balcony..

seems they didn't expect these rains either as it's gone pretty quiet there of recent ;-)

Had that problem a couple of years back. I just made sure the balcony was well used for a couple of weeks and they abandoned their nest. They haven't been back since.

They used to be scared and I think that works when they are still nest building.. just heard some suspicous chirping sounds... think their eggs have broken.

now they seem to have figured that 4 feet out of reach at that height means they are safe... they are sitting looking at me from above ... with beady little eyes.. feels like a scene from "The Birds".

We had em 2 years ago and didn't have the heart to bash up their nest and eggs that were on the balcony. But christ was an awful mess they made! Was scrubbing with bleach for hours! So we always scare them away now.

i saw the ravens for sale in the shop at the opposite side of Viktualienmarkt when you come from Marienplatz.
Where the traffic light is to go over the ringroad towards Sendlinger Tor, on the other side of the street (where Vee's coffee house, Shoya and the Victorian house are), one of the shops opposite the market sells them...

they find the smell of peppermint offensive. soak cotton balls in peppermint essential oil and put them in a bowl on the balcony and drop a few in the gutter. they will be like, "man, these people stink! let's get outta this dump" the same works for rodents, they hate peppermint and lemon essential oils. I would avoid the lemon, bees might find you attractive.

They are rodents. First step is realising that. Plastic ravens? Peppermint? If you had rats, you'd put down traps and poison. Same should apply to these flying rats, unless of course you intend to eat them afterwards - but even I would not eat street pidgeons.

My mother-in-law-to-be lives in Schwabing, and for the last few years, all the balconies are covered in netting to stop the things nesting. Its nuts. If there was too many rats, they'd get retcatchers to sort it. In London, you can actually see litter bins with a plastic base that's full of rat pellets. Like a dispenser so that rat-man does not have to go back so often. So when there is a pidgeon problem, why not a mass pidgeon cull. Instead of a yearly palava with netting, spikes, plastic novelty birds etc, they should just sort out a yearly cull. Lithe young children could hop around the rooftops (as they do anyway) collecting eggs. Prize for the winner and all that. Get a brass band, few food stalls, shitloads of beer. Great day out. Like whacking day in the Simpsons. Could even sell leather wrapped culling sticks. With a little hook to hang from lederhose. Let the Bavarians think up some silly name for it, and it might even catch on.

Theres a town in Texas that has an annual "rattle snake round up" pretty much a traditional culling/mini-festival, with games, a festival queen, fireworks etc. And yes, there's a competition to see who can catch the most, the biggest, longest or whatever snakes. And yep, wild rattler - usually crispy nugget style- is on the menu. Never tried it but heard it takes just like chicken

I agree with Johnny English..
Lead counter ballance in the earhole!!



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As it happens when we had a secure warehouse in the UK once in my past life a pigeon managed to get in. Problem was this place had infra-red beams everywhere so we had to get rid of the pigeon or we couldn't set the alarm and go home. And the ceilings were pretty high.

One of the guys popped home for his air rifle. It takes about a dozen hits to down one of these boys, and then they still refuse to die. Took a head shot from about 10cm's to get the job done complete with a quick gung ho shout of "Make my day punk!".

Why is it illegal to feed them? Cause we might poison them?

I also heard that the pidgeons are considered sacred in Venice. (!??!?) Don't know if it is true but the fact remains that when the little boys run at them the old ladies try to take a swing at the poor kids with their umbrellas for disturbing the nice feathered rats.

Still, I wouldn't like having little cooing love noises coming from outside my window when my signif. other is out of town. If I can't be having fun, no one else should be who is within earshot!

Thanks JoolyBooly, The object has been acquired and delivered. Waiting for the results. And thanks to alll who helped me on this thread... TTowners are cool!!!
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* Why is it illegal to feed them? Cause we might poison them?

Because they will reproduce too much. They carry some evil germs and their shit is quite aggressive and causes lots of damage e.g. to buildings.

Hi All,

I find razor blades stuck to the balconies works wonders, this has to be the most humane way to deal with the little blighters as when they try to land on your balcony, they slice their feet off, and with no feet, they can't land on your balcony again...Sorted, if we all did this, we would never have the pidgoen problem again and think how pretty the skies would look full of birds...bless them!

I tried that Tormentor. Problem is the little buggers are so daft they still try crash-landing with no undercarriage, although it does make them easier to catch for the BBQ.

Myself, Don Rinna and Jimbo were discussing the other week the legality of catching pigeons for food. Don the cooking expert reckon about 3 or 4 would make a decent pigeon pie - and also go a long way in providing food for the homeless.

Would the authorities be bothered of you walked in to Marienplatz square caught 4 in a cage(Humanely of course) and then took them home?

HAHA...eat em, sell em ($1-$2 EACH in NYC!!)...just beware of the undercover pigeon patrol!

Its a start...

Hire some pelicans - Pelican swallows pigeon in London park - BBC Article. Warning: reading this might make you feel a little queasy.

bet red ken introduces pelicans to trafalgar sq next!

Just out of curiosity what's the problem with pigeons, sweet jebus. Asides from the standard unsubstantiated bullshit about disease, bird flu etc - i would appreciate some real reasons why one wouldn't want these intelligent and harmless creatures sharing the city with us. God forbid nature might encroach on our little bubble of urbanity.

Similar to ravens, I have seen plastic or wooden owls put on balcony's and rooftops to keep the pigeons away. However, owls are a bad omen in some indian cultures. So ideally, you could try the raven first. Good luck!

They poo on your balcony, for one thing.

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I go with UA's original post way back when, Alka Seltzer in bread does the job, feathers everywhere

.22 air Rifle

yeah let's kill them all! and do it in a way that leaves no doubt how superior we are to them. beedy-eyed cooing little fuckers!

Every day when I walk to work, I have to navigate a sea of bread crumbs that have been strewn across the pavement, and the hoardes of cooing pecking pigeons. If you are reading this, please stop.

Public welfare: Their excrements are so aggressive that they eat away the buildings' stone shells causing huge pieces to break off and fall on people's heads. Personal reason: They also shit in my flower boxes killing my herbs and roses.

If you use of of these you dont need to BBQ them afterwards so gets rid of the flying rat and cooks evening meal all in one go

YEAH!!!

good one Scogs. that'll teach those flying rats for pooing on my roses!!!

Hi there,

to my horror today, I saw a pigeon land on our balcony and since I hate those rats with wings, I would like to know if anyone has got suggestions for preventing them from landing on our balcony in the future?
I don't really want to use one of those horrible nets, or use a pellet gun either!

Once I heard something about lemon juice being a deterrent. Could that be possible?

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Spray water at 'em, until they realize your balconey is not a fun place to land!

Okay, so for the last few weeks I have had two pigeon babies living on my balcony. At first it was kind of cute, but now the damn things are crapping everywhere and making an enormous mess. My flatmates think it's time for The Final Solution to the Pigeon Problem, but as gross as the winged rats are, I can't really see bashing their heads in.

Can you get an exterminator or something to get rid of them? Is there any way to get rid of them that doesn't involve bird homicide?

Maybe these guys at the Ordnungsamt know what you can do.

Hmm. Thanks for the tip. I would rather kill the birdies myself than talk to a Bavarian beamter -- a German dogcatcher, no less! -- over the telephone (would not be able to understand a word), but I've told my flatmate and he will call them on Wednesday. He reckons they are just going to tell us to call a 'Kammerjäger'.

I have Googled 'repel pigeons', and there are tons of ways to prevent them from roosting but no good ideas on how to get rid of them once they've hatched and are spreading their filth everywhere.

Edit: actually, my Googling just produced this: Canceled Flight: 101 Tried and True Pigeon Killin' Methods

They're birds.. Be it small ones.. Catch'm and toss'm over the balcony
They'll fly.. Maybe

Seemingly tiger and lion shit is the way to go.

Keep birds away

Seems WD40 works to repel pigeons... apparently they don't like the sent, so spray in on your balcony railing to keep those buggers away.

I use a .22 air rifle with high power pointed pellets.

I now have very little problem.

Better still, hold a naked flame in the spray and aim at the pigeons

I have the same problem with a little red squirrel that keeps finding his way onto my screened deck, no doubt through the hole s/he chewed into it. Plan to try the gun and flame methods; I'll get back to you.