fooled the pigeons

[carmalee]

Am very happy to feed all the birds that grace me with their presence at my bird feeder but..........the bally pigeons have worked out how to empty the feeder in a nano second (okay, am exaggerating a bit) have move it around with little or no result so have just spread cooking oil on the supporting branches and think I've sorted the problem - looks as though small birds now have the feeder back.

[jackthehat]

They really are just feathered rats.........:o(

[ummmm]

Awwww poor pigeons.

My cousin didn't realise they could fly...she thought they just walked round town all day!! Bless.

[jackthehat]

^ Why doesn't that surprise me ? ;D

[carmalee]

Inclined to agree JtH
Ummmmm - easy mistake for anyone to make! I quite like the idea of non airborne pigeons.

[Bbbananas]

Better than crows though - crows are evil.

[ummmm]

Don't they make a racket Salla?

That's just one of her little jems Jack......Me and Gaz were having a competition....who has the thickest kids. He won...easily :-)

[Bbbananas]

psml at that.....!

The BF hates seagulls. Having had quite a few that have crapped on his head whilst trying to do his Captain bit. Not a good look...

[carmalee]

have no crows - lots of Jackdaws and a Jay who visits regularly though.

[Ratty2E]

I am afraid I dislike pigeons intensely, possibly due to the fact one pooed on my head in the middle of town when I was 5 years old. They always clear my bird table leaving nothing for the small birds which annoys me especially as they always look too fat anyway. They waddle about and then when they do take off they seem to make a wheezy sound as they fly. I try to hang feeders away from any other branches that they might use as perches and i have modified one small table so that it's too small for them to get on. I really don't think the world would be any worse off with a lot less if not no pigeons at all.

[jackthehat]

We have a lot of 'pigeons-with-attitude' here in Blackpool.

They have to compete with the seagulls for food and I have been hit on the head several times by a low-flying pigeon making its way to an abandoned chip on the pavement.

[wolf63]

I live in a top floor flat and my two moggies don't get out. Frankie is obsessed with the pigeons - he sits under the Velux window watching them and also has a vantage point on a high shelf in the bathroom.

I am sure that the little flea machines just wind him up - he doesn't bother with them so much now that he is older (he will be 6 this month) - but I would love to put him out on the roof to eradicate them.

[carmalee]

I'm really quite happy to give them their share but they've ousted the smaller birds - fingers crossed though they seem to find it very hard to balance in a slippery branch!

[paddywak]

I like pigeons, especially in a pie

[carmalee]

agree paddywak

[mike11111]

Pigeons pale into insignificance when compared with seagulls. Every year two come back to nest in the chimney of the house opposite. The male knows me and I have only to put my nose out of the door before he starts bomb-diving me. Little bastard!

By the way, don't moan about being crapped on by a pigeon until you've been crapped on by a seagull. Boy, does that hurt! They must have precision bombing radar in their arses. If they had all been signed up in September 1939 the war WOULD have been over by Christmas.

[ummmm]

lol

[carmalee]

Mike 11111 great comment