How do I get rid of pigeons???

[Pivot]

2 of them hang out on my roof,same place every morning at 4am.I tried the spikes,I tried ratt poison in bird seed.I dont want to use a BB gun,but Ive had enough.Any suggestions?

 

[Deleted Account]

Pellet gun then...

 

[Skyskier]

2 of them hang out on my roof,same place every morning at 4am.I tried the spikes,I tried ratt poison in bird seed.I dont want to use a BB gun,but Ive had enough.Any suggestions?

Try some "Betty Crocker, instant mashed potato flakes".............it's working on squirrel's out here in Winchester :thumbsup
I have no idea why..........I emptied the squirelinator last night, 3 down, 333 to go :skull.....give or take 100 or so

 

[Pivot]

Try some "Betty Crocker, instant mashed potato flakes".............it's working on squirrel's out here in Winchester :thumbsup
I have no idea why..........I emptied the squirelinator last night, 3 down, 333 to go :skull.....give or take 100 or so

type trap?

 

[TPC]

Been all through it.
Crossman BB gun from Big 5.
The Daisys have no power.

 

[bunkrepair]

one of those plastic owls there like a foot tall i heard there suppossed to keep them away

 

[bunkrepair]

Been all through it.
Crossman BB gun from Big 5.
The Daisys have no power.

i could probably get one with my 30.6 haha i might have enough power

 

[Pivot]

one of those plastic owls there like a foot tall i heard there suppossed to keep them away

those at lowes,,,25 bucks for something Im not sure will work.They focking love my roof

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

one of those plastic owls there like a foot tall i heard there suppossed to keep them away

x2

 

[YoPengo]

one of those plastic owls there like a foot tall i heard there suppossed to keep them away

They work. I had two nesting on my roof and BNAG...Mr plastic owl did the trick. :thumbsup

 

[squirtnmyload]

a couple of my neighbors have the owls and i saw a pigeon standing next to it one day. lol. i think they get used to them after awhile and just come back.

 

[460]

Ask me how many times a week i hose off my patio? God damn muther fers are trashing my patio, EATING MY DOGS FOOD. I swear there are 50 or so of them that sit on the neighbors house and wait for the dogs to be done eating and fininsh off the rest. Its borderline out of control. My birddog runs them off the best he can but then says f it and leaves um alone.

The owl deal works for a few days then they know it aint gunna hurt um

 

[460]

Been all through it.
Crossman BB gun from Big 5.
The Daisys have no power.

Make an example out of um huh. Im at that point. Let the dogs trash on of there men in front of them ought to keep um away. Bird dog wont but my female heeler will

 

[YoPengo]

a couple of my neighbors have the owls and i saw a pigeon standing next to it one day. lol. i think they get used to them after awhile and just come back.

You do have to move him every one and a while. I actually only leave it up for a few days and then store it.

BTW… it doesn’t work for rabbits.

 

[TBI]

They work. I had two nesting on my roof and BNAG...Mr plastic owl did the trick. :thumbsup

So you have an owl keeping pigeons away from a penguin?

 

[TBI]

Make an example out of um huh. Im at that point. Let the dogs trash on of there men in front of them ought to keep um away. Bird dog wont but my female heeler will

Kentucky fried pigeons

 

[YoPengo]

So you have an owl keeping pigeons away from a penguin?

Yep. Hooters keeping pigeons away from my pecker.

 

[Skyskier]

type trap?

the squirelinator at www.ruggedranch.net

 

[Catfish]

We'd kill a crow and hang it on the fence, the rest would never come back, don't know if pigeons are that smart though. :skull

 

[underpressure]

Have this problem too (pigeons roosting on my roof). the effers leave a huge mess! Is there another way besides popping a few with said pellet guns (neighbors would likely frown on that activity)? Can you effectively poison them - and nothing else - so that maybe they fly off and drop dead somewhere else? How about one them solar powered owls?

 

[Wheeler]

The Mayor of Newport Beach had a pigeon problem. There are so many of them, and they would just fly around disturbing the tourists and crapping on everything. He wanted very badly to get rid of them. He takes an ad out in the paper saying "I'll pay anything to the person who can get rid of all these pigeons!" The next day, the mayor gets a call. "I'm your guy", the voice says. He continues, "You'll have to pay me $50,000. But, you can't ask me any questions. If you want to ask a question, it'll be another $10,000. Meet me in Big Canyon by the pond. I'll be sitting on the bench there." So, the mayor goes to the park and sees a man sitting on the bench with a small box on his lap. "You must be my guy" the mayor says. "Yep" says the stranger. He then opens the box and a pink pigeon flies out. The pigeon flies in big circles around the pond, over and over. Suddenly, all the pigeons from the town are following this pink pigeon in the big circles around Fashion Island. Suddenly, the pink pigeon does a nose dive into the pond, and all the other pigeons follow it out to sea, and they all drown. No more pigeon problem! The mayor hands the stranger $60,000. "Ah, I knew you wanted to ask me a question," says the stranger. "Yeah," says the mayor, "you got any pink Mexicans?"

 

[BobbyB]

gotta get the Ben Franklin Air Rifle .22 cal, and some silver jet pellets (with a point). 4 pumps and they're done.

 

[BobbyB]

...Alka Seltzer?

 

[Bobby V]

The Mayor of Newport Beach had a pigeon problem. There are so many of them, and they would just fly around disturbing the tourists and crapping on everything. He wanted very badly to get rid of them. He takes an ad out in the paper saying "I'll pay anything to the person who can get rid of all these pigeons!" The next day, the mayor gets a call. "I'm your guy", the voice says. He continues, "You'll have to pay me $50,000. But, you can't ask me any questions. If you want to ask a question, it'll be another $10,000. Meet me in Big Canyon by the pond. I'll be sitting on the bench there." So, the mayor goes to the park and sees a man sitting on the bench with a small box on his lap. "You must be my guy" the mayor says. "Yep" says the stranger. He then opens the box and a pink pigeon flies out. The pigeon flies in big circles around the pond, over and over. Suddenly, all the pigeons from the town are following this pink pigeon in the big circles around Fashion Island. Suddenly, the pink pigeon does a nose dive into the pond, and all the other pigeons follow it out to sea, and they all drown. No more pigeon problem! The mayor hands the stranger $60,000. "Ah, I knew you wanted to ask me a question," says the stranger. "Yeah," says the mayor, "you got any pink Mexicans?"

Why did he give him 10K more...

 

[YoPengo]

The Mayor of Newport Beach had a pigeon problem. There are so many of them, and they would just fly around disturbing the tourists and crapping on everything. He wanted very badly to get rid of them. He takes an ad out in the paper saying "I'll pay anything to the person who can get rid of all these pigeons!" The next day, the mayor gets a call. "I'm your guy", the voice says. He continues, "You'll have to pay me $50,000. But, you can't ask me any questions. If you want to ask a question, it'll be another $10,000. Meet me in Big Canyon by the pond. I'll be sitting on the bench there." So, the mayor goes to the park and sees a man sitting on the bench with a small box on his lap. "You must be my guy" the mayor says. "Yep" says the stranger. He then opens the box and a pink pigeon flies out. The pigeon flies in big circles around the pond, over and over. Suddenly, all the pigeons from the town are following this pink pigeon in the big circles around Fashion Island. Suddenly, the pink pigeon does a nose dive into the pond, and all the other pigeons follow it out to sea, and they all drown. No more pigeon problem! The mayor hands the stranger $60,000. "Ah, I knew you wanted to ask me a question," says the stranger. "Yeah," says the mayor, "you got any pink Mexicans?"[/QUOTE]

Why did he give him 10K more...

 

[Wheeler]

Why did he give him 10K more...

Give councilman Richard Nichols a call, I bet he would pay plenty to rid of his pigeon problem.

 

[HavasuHank]

we had pigeons right when we moved in ... put up the spikes. they went next door:thumbsup

the owl works sometimes ... you gotta move it every couple of days. the guy at the end of the cul-de-sac cemented the owl to his roof. the other day i saw a pigeon standing on the owl ... lmao!

 

[2Driver]

Lowes and Home depot sell seed laced with Strychnine. It comes in a pint or quart size tube container and really works. The brand I got was Wilco Gopher Getter. It's for rats but should do the trick on birds. All they need to do is put it in their mouth. It is way better than traditional rat poison.

Just be sure you secure it in something that wont spill or be consumed by other animals while it is out for the pigeons.

As for shooting them, geez all you need is an decent BB gun with a dialed in scope or laser sight. They are pretty cheap. You just have to do it without your neighbors seeing you and worry about the damage the BB will do when you miss the bird.

Glue traps work really good too if you really think it is just the same 2 birds. Lowes has them.

 

[Pivot]

rat poison with bird seed in a flat cup,siliconed them down to my tiles,like 6 of them.I had 40 birds on my roof for a week,none died.I have no issue with the BB gun idea,but the wife and neighbors may not like it.I guess the owl trick and moving it every few days.Focking things are gonna make me fall off the roof!!!

 

[ROC]

We had pigeons at our first place. They nested under our awning on the front patio. They would scare guests away from the nearby seats because they didn't want to get bombed on.

After scaring them away for days on end I finally had it. I got a ladder and went to take their nest down. As I got to the top of the ladder I looked in the nest and there were several unhatched eggs. So I took the eggs and poached em. I made pigeon-egg benedict's with fresh Hollandaise. They were small little suckers and only took one mouthful.

JK


After finding the eggs, I didn't have the heart to destroy the nest. So I made a cardboard poop trap and explained to all the guests that would notice it. They were fine with it and were even intrigued by the whole deal. A few days later the eggs hatched and we had several babie pigeons in the nest. Making all sorts of racket for a while. The mother stayed with them and after a while, she literally pushed to baby pigeons out, one by one. Off the ledge and learned to fly, right there. A while later they were all gone. I thought, bitchen, now we have our patio back and the nest came down.

The same time next year I noticed some pigeons hanging out at the old nest. Turns out they were the babies that were hatched there a year before and were looking to move back in. I guess that's what they do.

I quickly made sure they weren't able to build there and they ended up building another nest in a nearby tree, away from any drop zones.

I have no idea what my point was gonna be. Carry on

 

[DaveC]

Can you throw your cat up on the roof???:skull

 

[MMD]

http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-pigeons.htm

http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/pest-control/how-to-get-rid-of-pigeons/

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Pigeons

Pigeons are fantastically intelligent,and have a powerful drive to return home. If you can reach them, they are easily caught in the dark, but removed pigeons cannot be released at any distance: They will come back unless they are established in a new home by 'locking them in' until they raise babies in the new location.

There is no magic spray or device that can make pigeon just go away. Fake plastic owls or plastic hawks to get rid of pigeons, may not work either.

If the problem gets severe you should call in a professional to get rid of them for you.

If you can't beat them, harvest them. Squab was one of the primary meat staples of human diet until 20 century when confinement chicken farming replaced them. That's where all these pigeons came from! They escaped or were turned loose from farms raising them for meat. Birds are best harvested when they are nearly full size but still on the nest. They taste like Cornish hens.

 

[linus3]

one of those plastic owls there like a foot tall i heard there suppossed to keep them away

I have one for sale........its covered in bird shit......:thumbsdown

 

[Pivot]

http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-pigeons.htm

http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/pest-control/how-to-get-rid-of-pigeons/

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Pigeons

Pigeons are fantastically intelligent,and have a powerful drive to return home. If you can reach them, they are easily caught in the dark, but removed pigeons cannot be released at any distance: They will come back unless they are established in a new home by 'locking them in' until they raise babies in the new location.

There is no magic spray or device that can make pigeon just go away. Fake plastic owls or plastic hawks to get rid of pigeons, may not work either.

If the problem gets severe you should call in a professional to get rid of them for you.

If you can't beat them, harvest them. Squab was one of the primary meat staples of human diet until 20 century when confinement chicken farming replaced them. That's where all these pigeons came from! They escaped or were turned loose from farms raising them for meat. Birds are best harvested when they are nearly full size but still on the nest. They taste like Cornish hens.

taste like chicken,,,,,wait,you said hens

 

[LhcBrad]

Alot of good answers here, and funny too. Here is my answer.
Get some fishing line and string it along the areas they roost.Along peaks of the roof and on ledges. They cant see it, and when they run into it or land on it they get pissed and confused and leave the area. Dont waste the money on the owl they get use to it.
Just think your house can look like this.Your neighbors will love you. But you wont have any pigeons

 

[HolyMoly]

http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-pigeons.htm

http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/pest-control/how-to-get-rid-of-pigeons/

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Pigeons

Pigeons are fantastically intelligent,and have a powerful drive to return home. If you can reach them, they are easily caught in the dark, but removed pigeons cannot be released at any distance: They will come back unless they are established in a new home by 'locking them in' until they raise babies in the new location.

There is no magic spray or device that can make pigeon just go away. Fake plastic owls or plastic hawks to get rid of pigeons, may not work either.

If the problem gets severe you should call in a professional to get rid of them for you.

If you can't beat them, harvest them. Squab was one of the primary meat staples of human diet until 20 century when confinement chicken farming replaced them. That's where all these pigeons came from! They escaped or were turned loose from farms raising them for meat. Birds are best harvested when they are nearly full size but still on the nest. They taste like Cornish hens.

Great site MMD. I've always wanted to know how to get rid of Zombies! http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-zombies.htm

 

[Rvrluvr]

bread crumbs filled with alka seltzer.......stand back and watch em blow

 

[WTRR]

Just think of them as rats with wings...then shoot the fock out of them with a pellet gun.

 

[Mandelon]

At the local navy base there is a pond. Across the pond are stretched a bunch of wires, in a grid pattern, maybe 30" on center. No ducks land on the pond.....

I think the fishing line idea might have some merit.

I'd shoot em.

 

[Nordie]

couple of solutions for you guys...number one about 8 years ago when i was still in high school "dont hate on me too much" my dad's wife at the time was cleaning out the pantry and we had some stale rice cakes in there, and she decided to put them out for the more exotic birds to eat...not the rats...anyway before we knew it there was bloated up birds everywhere in the yard dead as all hell! it worked then i explained to her about rice and birds, and she felt bad and i laughed...my most recent eliminating of pigeons is my blow gun...you pop about 3 a month and they dissapear for a while....almost like they know, because me too i have had a problem with the dog food, and pigeons! and it's inexpensive, and quiet

 

[Pivot]

like your a african tribes men???With a nail as the dart???Now were TALKIN!!!I have all sizes of copper pipe at work.:thumbsup

 

[Deleted Account]

like your a african tribes men???With a nail as the dart???Now were TALKIN!!!I have all sizes of copper pipe at work.:thumbsup

more often...

 

[JB in so cal]

like your a african tribes men???With a nail as the dart???Now were TALKIN!!!I have all sizes of copper pipe at work.:thumbsup

Just what you need... A BLOW gun:gayfight

 

[Nordie]

like your a african tribes men???With a nail as the dart???Now were TALKIN!!!I have all sizes of copper pipe at work.:thumbsup

actually seen a carpenter make one on the job with some duct tape as the feather, pvc pipe, and a drywall screw....anyway seen alot of pigeons on that job with drywall screws stuck in them! also he lived in BFE so i seen alot of dead rattlesnakes in lunch boxes too!

 

[TPC]

At my work I used tackless strip where they would land.
It's the 1/4" thick strips of wood with nails poking through that carpet layers use.
The stuff is cheap and really works. Ya don't have to nail it, silicone adhesive will do the trick too

We called it Mexican Nixalite:

Nixalite it fantastic but way too expensive:

 

[HPBoats83]

I have the same problem too but the problem specific to me is I don't think it's smart for me to climb a ladder to the second story roof with one leg since my other is broken. :swear

 

[Tremor Therapy]

F*ck the neighbors! :grumble:
Crossman .177 pellet rifle, 1 pump and it works every time!
Just remember, cats like easy meals too!

 

[dp85tona]

if you poison them and they fall dead in someones yard or yours and a dog or cat get into them by by to the dog or cat

i was told that chlorine tablets work just get them wet to activate them then put them in the areas where they will go and its supposed to work

 

[Wheeler]

I hear WD-40 works.

 

[whiteworks]

You should just name them, I vote for Herb and Bonnie