How to get pigeons the hell away from le crib

[nismodrifter]

God damn birds jump around our roof 24/7 and its annoying as hell. They are pigeons and other various gangsters. Seems as if our house has become the place for OG birds to be. They chill here all day, go out to eat...and then come and shit all over our deck. (Deck was washed a couple days ago....its totally covered in bird feces now.)

It also seems that they like to sip on 40z and then fly home drunk...usually they end up slamming into one of our windows. (I'll post pics later...there is a dusty imprint of a bird who smashed into one of our windows haha).

Anybody have any ideas as to how to scare/keep these pigeons and other birds the hell away from our house??? Its annoying as hell to wake up to the sounds of birds crip walking on the roof.

Going on the roof is rather dangerous as its a 2-story house on a hill with a walkout...40+foot drop is not exactly user friendly. If it wasn't for that I'd be out there kicking the crap out of them right now. Suggestions on how to attack from ground or 2nd-story window would be good.

[d.maczko]

buy my paintball gun, lol, the paint washes off with water

[Rockski]

id say, try feeding them rice with a bowl of water next to it
(traditional way)

OR, mix some cement inside with the rice, heard it works pretty good

Borax and icing sugar work for ants, so, bird seed and borax COULD work too... if your lucky


owls dont work woth shit once they figure out that theyre plasic, then they just use it as a perch

[HTN SWCHS]

co2 and lead pellets.. make them your best friend.
used them to take a couple down and a nest but i dont know how severe your problem is

[logix]

I had the same problem.. but they LIVED in a hole they made on my roof >=\.. Crap all over my roof, must've been 10 of them.
We solved that problem 2 days ago. Scared them away, bolted the hole up and screened it hahaha.
The hard part was cleaning all that crap off my roof, and the piles and piles of shiet in the gutter

[SwitchBlade]

broken glass maybe?

[schurchill39]

leave hunks of food preferably bread with drain-o pelets in it and watch their asses explode. My boss said they used to do that back on the coast with seagulls.

P.S i found your reference to gang members VERY funny

[crazyning]

Buy a cat, and let it loose on your roof.

Read somewhere that feeding birds rice is just an urban myth, but you can still give it a try.

[5hift]

We had the same problem and they were quite a bitch to get rid of. Your going to have to keep harassing them as it takes quite a bit for them to leave. I had to destroy their nests I think three times and kill a few with my pellet gun before they decided to move on.

[Phy]

A balloon sculpture shaped like Robert Frost.

(Ok, maybe like two people are gonna get that...)

[fcuk_it]

sprinkle alka selkser(sp) on some bread and feed it to them haha

[Davetronz]

Go get yourself a fake owl from a place like canadian tire or army and navy...
Put that bugger up on the roof where the pigeons chillax.
Birds get intimidated by larger birds and will usually stay away (unless they are in VERY large numbers and brave)...

Either that or I call a beyond BB gun meet at your place

[natejj]

You can come by and pick up my BB gun and borrow it... just needs a fresh C02 Container! heck, ill come with ya! I got 2 slingshots we can use too.

But i would suggest rice and water in a bowl.

[GTS Jeff]

You can use those bird shadow stickers for your window.

For the birds on the roof? Fill a supersoaker with oil and have some fun. Birds hate oil. See:

[nismodrifter]

^

So it looks like I need to start shooting stuff at them.

[5hift]

I think shooting at them is the only way that works, they are considered a pest in many places so they will take a lot of harassment before leaving. Those fake owl and large bird stickers are jokes, I'll try to see if I can post a pic of how effective they actually are (Pigeons will be scared of th.em for about a day or so but then will start using them as perches)

[dericer]

If you don't want to kill them, you can downloads bird sounds (preferrably owls, eagles, hawks) and play it once in a while. They do that at some airports.

[Obscura]

Originally posted by schurchill39
leave hunks of food preferably bread with drain-o pelets in it and watch their asses explode. My boss said they used to do that back on the coast with seagulls.

P.S i found your reference to gang members VERY funny

A friend told me about this as well.. course you'd then have exploded pigeon bodies to clean up... could be fun get a video camera and an umbrella and just wait...

you could get a pigeon costume and sit up on the roof. Once you earn their trust and become one with the pigeons you could convince them to leave...

I like the exploding pigeon idea better...

[2000_SI]

Gasoline and styrafoam...

[Phy]

Originally posted by dericer
If you don't want to kill them, you can downloads bird sounds (preferrably owls, eagles, hawks) and play it once in a while. They do that at some airports.

Is that what that weird squawking noise is, that they play over the intercom at C-Train stations every so often?