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bumface

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I'm getting a bit sick of this. Seems like every pigeon in Norton has decided to treat my back garden and my garage as their shag palace. I have nothing against pigeons, but it is pretty annoying when I'm in the conservatory, and every time I look out of the window there's some filthy pigeon orgy going on outside. I feel for the female pigeons. The bloke pigeon just hops on, flaps his wings for a few seconds, and then he hops off again and goes to sleep. I don't think that the female pigeon gets much out of it TBH. Is anyone else having similar pigeon issues?
 
bumface said:
I'm getting a bit sick of this. Seems like every pigeon in Norton has decided to treat my back garden and my garage as their shag palace. I have nothing against pigeons, but it is pretty annoying when I'm in the conservatory, and every time I look out of the window there's some filthy pigeon orgy going on outside. I feel for the female pigeons. The bloke pigeon just hops on, flaps his wings for a few seconds, and then he hops off again and goes to sleep. I don't think that the female pigeon gets much out of it TBH. Is anyone else having similar pigeon issues?
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We've had these orgies going on for years but we've had some Southerners from the Beverley area (people not pigeons) move in at the back of us and they chopped the pigeons roosting tree down. They now sit on the flat roof part of the extension and run up and down with rollerskates on.
 
We were inundated with them for a couple of years. I was totally fed up with them . Now they rarely show up. The only reason I can come up with is that a pair of Magpies built a nest in the bushes at the back of the garden. I think they are quite territorial and have scared the pigeons away.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
Only one way to deal with them.

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I don't want to hurt them and I don't want to eat them. There's two of them out there on the garage roof right now, and I've just gone out there to grab a beer and I waved my arms at them and told them to f*ck off and they just looked at me. They're not scared of me at all.
 
I hate pigeons, their cack-handed attempts to master the English language are like the stuff of racist 70s sitcoms.
 
Blf said:
We were inundated with them for a couple of years. I was totally fed up with them . Now they rarely show up. The only reason I can come up with is that a pair of Magpies built a nest in the bushes at the back of the garden. I think they are quite territorial and have scared the pigeons away.
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We've had magpies show up recently, maybe there is hope.
 
coluka said:
I’d pay good money to see pigeons on rollerskates like
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That's what is sounds like when they're on my roof. I've got magpies. and pigeons and there has been a bit of a territorial dispute going on between them for months, but the pigeons seem to have won that battle now. There's two perfectly good trees in the field behind my house. Why can't they shag in those instead of using my back garden?
 
bumface said:
I don't want to hurt them and I don't want to eat them. There's two of them out there on the garage roof right now, and I've just gone out there to grab a beer and I waved my arms at them and told them to f*ck off and they just looked at me. They're not scared of me at all.
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The Southerners also own a big ginger Tom cat and I am sure he is doing his best to keep the population down. He came unstuck last week though and fell off the roof when the crows started to mob him from different directions.
 
We have sparrowhawks nearby and they help keep the numbers down. I thought we had pigeons nesting in a bush in our garden. 2 days later there was a pile of feathers and a few bones on the lawn.
 
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