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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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How do i scare pigeons away but make it so that the other little birds can still use the bird feeders?
Went through a whole bird feeder yesterday the greedy sods  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"dont they still have to eat aswell? are they woodpigeons
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just your normal standard pigeon.. im not a bird watcher
they just sit under the plum tree when the feeders are pretty much empty and eat up all the other bits n bobs that get spilt |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We have the same problem with woodpigeons, they infest our area and we live near the beach not in the countryside.
We never saw the buggers until a couple of years ago.
The fat greedy feckers eat everything that gets put out, they're like flying grey footballs!  
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"We have the same problem with woodpigeons, they infest our area and we live near the beach not in the countryside.
We never saw the buggers until a couple of years ago.
The fat greedy feckers eat everything that gets put out, they're like flying grey footballs!
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We live right on the coast and the problem is worse with the pigeons than it is with gulls
My grandparents loved the fact they re established the families of smaller birds back into the garden and now the food supply just isnt there for them.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Another trick with pigeons is bread filled with sodium bicarbonate 
wouldnt that kill the other little birds too though?"
I was joking I wouldn't dream of doing it. There are really good bird feeders that are designed for small birds and keep bigger birds like pigeons, magpies, ravens etc out. The little birds can have a feeding frenzy while the bigger birds get the huge amount of scraps that fall out as the small birds feed.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Another trick with pigeons is bread filled with sodium bicarbonate
wouldnt that kill the other little birds too though?
I was joking I wouldn't dream of doing it. There are really good bird feeders that are designed for small birds and keep bigger birds like pigeons, magpies, ravens etc out. The little birds can have a feeding frenzy while the bigger birds get the huge amount of scraps that fall out as the small birds feed. "
This.  You can get "squirrel-proof" feeders that will keep the bigger birds away from it, but please leave food for the wood pigeons - they need to eat too, and they don't harm smaller birds. In our garden we have a feeding table and two hanging squirrel-proof feeders. On the table a moment ago were 2 wood pigeons, 3 jackdaws, 5 sparrows and a robin - they all get on if there's plenty of food. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Another trick with pigeons is bread filled with sodium bicarbonate
wouldnt that kill the other little birds too though?
I was joking I wouldn't dream of doing it. There are really good bird feeders that are designed for small birds and keep bigger birds like pigeons, magpies, ravens etc out. The little birds can have a feeding frenzy while the bigger birds get the huge amount of scraps that fall out as the small birds feed.
This. You can get "squirrel-proof" feeders that will keep the bigger birds away from it, but please leave food for the wood pigeons - they need to eat too, and they don't harm smaller birds. In our garden we have a feeding table and two hanging squirrel-proof feeders. On the table a moment ago were 2 wood pigeons, 3 jackdaws, 5 sparrows and a robin - they all get on if there's plenty of food."
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By *am123Man
over a year ago
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"Another trick with pigeons is bread filled with sodium bicarbonate
wouldnt that kill the other little birds too though?
I was joking I wouldn't dream of doing it. There are really good bird feeders that are designed for small birds and keep bigger birds like pigeons, magpies, ravens etc out. The little birds can have a feeding frenzy while the bigger birds get the huge amount of scraps that fall out as the small birds feed. "
ravens really  |
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I would set up an electric net system.where the little ones get through no problem but if they are too greedy they get frazzled on way out like their big cousins the seagull and crow.teach them a wee bit about right and wrong  . .not that I've gave it much thought. X |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Another trick with pigeons is bread filled with sodium bicarbonate
wouldnt that kill the other little birds too though?
I was joking I wouldn't dream of doing it. There are really good bird feeders that are designed for small birds and keep bigger birds like pigeons, magpies, ravens etc out. The little birds can have a feeding frenzy while the bigger birds get the huge amount of scraps that fall out as the small birds feed. ravens really "
Yep get ravens round here |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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my hubby puts out 3 feeders and lots of bread and hes always moaning about the jackdaws saying they are greedy and i say no they are just hungry.
we have wood pigeons too they need more food because they are bigger.
i do get annoyed about someones racing pigeons though because their owner should be feeding them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Another trick with pigeons is bread filled with sodium bicarbonate
wouldnt that kill the other little birds too though?
I was joking I wouldn't dream of doing it. There are really good bird feeders that are designed for small birds and keep bigger birds like pigeons, magpies, ravens etc out. The little birds can have a feeding frenzy while the bigger birds get the huge amount of scraps that fall out as the small birds feed.
This. You can get "squirrel-proof" feeders that will keep the bigger birds away from it, but please leave food for the wood pigeons - they need to eat too, and they don't harm smaller birds. In our garden we have a feeding table and two hanging squirrel-proof feeders. On the table a moment ago were 2 wood pigeons, 3 jackdaws, 5 sparrows and a robin - they all get on if there's plenty of food.
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I was just shouting at the pigeons.
I put string round my bird feeder so only the little birds can get in.
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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"Put each birds names on the edge of their plate. "
I get my seed in 18 kilo bags from the market. I always try to make sure it`s got smaller seeds in it and not the larger wheat that the pigeons and collared doves prefer. Having said that, my biggest problem is magpies, crows and jays, also keeping up with the supply of suet cakes for the spotted woodpeckers! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well Being a Bird watcher Its Pleaseing To
See So Many Takeing A Interest In Their
Garden Birds I,m Not a Fond Lover Of Magpies Or Crows Or Grey Squirrels Has They Have The Natural Instinct To Seek and
Find Eggs and Fledgelings In Their Nests And Have Done Many Times In My Garden,I Have a RSPB Bird Feeder Which Allows the
Little birds in The bigger birds can pick
The Crumbs up Off The Floor If You Have
A Bird Table Then Its help yer Self Apart From That Unless you have Vegetables Like lettuce, Brussel sprouts
Growing in your Garden And young cabbage
Plants Which Either The wood pigeon Or
Collarded Dove Can Take The Hearts out
And strawberrys and raspberrys along
With any fruit really but getting back
To The Feeders Let The Birds Enjoy Themselves. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"dont they still have to eat aswell? are they woodpigeons
just your normal standard pigeon.. im not a bird watcher
they just sit under the plum tree when the feeders are pretty much empty and eat up all the other bits n bobs that get spilt "
if there is stuff on the floor, you WILL get rats, winged and 4 legged. use a fatball, hanging mid air, if a pigeon or rat can get to it, they deserve a treat. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Another trick with pigeons is bread filled with sodium bicarbonate
wouldnt that kill the other little birds too though?
Invite me over, I will be a scarecrow. "
Problem is with pigeons...the crows are fine! |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
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we have wood pigeons too they need more food because they are bigger.
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The pigeons here are greedy sods. They need more food because they weigh the same as a small dog. Like someone else said earlier, they are like grey footballs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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we have wood pigeons too they need more food because they are bigger.
The pigeons here are greedy sods. They need more food because they weigh the same as a small dog. Like someone else said earlier, they are like grey footballs."
Its surpriseing what they can
Get in their crops...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A handy little tip for bird watchers is to mix rat poison in with the birdseed. Then all you have to do is wait for them to drop dead in vast numbers around the feeding table and tick them all off in your bird book. Save yourself hours of tediously trying to identify them in flight. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A handy little tip for bird watchers is to mix rat poison in with the birdseed. Then all you have to do is wait for them to drop dead in vast numbers around the feeding table and tick them all off in your bird book. Save yourself hours of tediously trying to identify them in flight."
How SAD you ARE..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A handy little tip for bird watchers is to mix rat poison in with the birdseed. Then all you have to do is wait for them to drop dead in vast numbers around the feeding table and tick them all off in your bird book. Save yourself hours of tediously trying to identify them in flight. How SAD you ARE..... "
What a GREAT sense of humour YOU need. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A handy little tip for bird watchers is to mix rat poison in with the birdseed. Then all you have to do is wait for them to drop dead in vast numbers around the feeding table and tick them all off in your bird book. Save yourself hours of tediously trying to identify them in flight. How SAD you ARE.....
What a GREAT sense of humour YOU need."
Go down your hole where all thee other trolls go.. |
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Make a cage enclosure around your feeders that only smaller birds can enter. You can buy such feeders but they are very pricey. Otherwise, large birds often find it impossible to use some of the long vertical feeders, so check out what friends and neighbours are using. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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we had a rat run a couple of years ago - they ran up the birdtable and took off with a piece of toast -
ive seen plastic owls that keep pigeons off rooftops think they might scare away the little birds too though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A handy little tip for bird watchers is to mix rat poison in with the birdseed. Then all you have to do is wait for them to drop dead in vast numbers around the feeding table and tick them all off in your bird book. Save yourself hours of tediously trying to identify them in flight."
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"How do i scare pigeons away but make it so that the other little birds can still use the bird feeders?
Went through a whole bird feeder yesterday the greedy sods "
Tip.....Watch old episodes of Pigeon Street and learn the Pigeon lingo.
When the greedy gits turn up at your bird feeder you can then tell them to Feck Orf in Pigeon language Dr Dolittle style. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A handy little tip for bird watchers is to mix rat poison in with the birdseed. Then all you have to do is wait for them to drop dead in vast numbers around the feeding table and tick them all off in your bird book. Save yourself hours of tediously trying to identify them in flight. How SAD you ARE.....
What a GREAT sense of humour YOU need. Go down your hole where all thee other trolls go.. "
You actually think I'm a troll???
no offense but you have the intelligence of a fucking ice cube, lighten up ffs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wood pigeon makes really good eating! "
I would be careful of eating woodpigeon in a town, as they are better when they are from wooded areas.
I was told never to feed pigeon from a city area to my hawk, as they carry a disease that can kill my bird. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A handy little tip for bird watchers is to mix rat poison in with the birdseed. Then all you have to do is wait for them to drop dead in vast numbers around the feeding table and tick them all off in your bird book. Save yourself hours of tediously trying to identify them in flight. How SAD you ARE.....
What a GREAT sense of humour YOU need. Go down your hole where all thee other trolls go..
You actually think I'm a troll???
no offense but you have the intelligence of a fucking ice cube, lighten up ffs."
your adding nothing to this post and sense of humour your pathetic.. like all trolls. |
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