Skip down to the bottom to get straight onto how to make the pigeon harasser it's very easy!
I was in a lovely pub in Wiltshire and there was pigeon and hare on the menu. I find hare a bit livery and so because I believe it is important to be adventurous with food, even though I am pretty fussy and it tends to go pear shape more than 50% of the time. I ordered pigeon, I thought it's a bird - you can't really go wrong with fowl. How wrong I was! It was (sorry any pigeon lovers) disgusting, like black liver cooked for an hour and a half. Nothing even vaguely similar to any bird I've ever eaten - but I don't think I'll be trying puffin.
I had to swap it for the hare - which was just a bit better. Luckily cos we were in England the Sunday dinner side dishes were fine. Unfortunately because we were in (the posh bit of) England it was super expensive.
anyway I don't like pigeons
I once accepted an apartment - for about 36 hours - where the extra, attic room upstairs had had a window left open for a few years. It was a good sized and good shaped room but literally every milimetre was layered in pigeon shit with a couple of nests still in there one with eggs in.
When I viewed the place the first time I thought - I'll just clean this up and make a treatment room, it'll be perfect!
When I went back the next day to look again - I took a paint scraper with me - that made no indentation worth speaking of. I also noticed that the apartment was really tiny and once my stuff was in it there would be very little space for actually living. Also the neighbours and neighbourhood were not particularly friendly especially the play area that I had thought would be ideal for my young daughter.
I left with a sinking feeling in my gut. got on the phone and spent the rest of the day researching what it would cost to get professionals to clean and redecorate the space. Before 12.00 the next day, having got up early to be straight back on the phone again. I phoned and said - I don't want the house I changed my mind! The size and my stories re the minimal contact I had had with the neighbours, plus the prices, time, tools necessary for cleaning the space upstairs gained me sympathy and I ended up in my fabby house on the Highway.
For the first few years I lived in this house I had this hanging up in the garden and no pigeon bother
As you can see it is no longer as shiny as it was, half of the colour has faded and it is actually fairly matt.
About two weeks ago them nasty birds started turning up in the garden and I started hunting for old cd's. My upstairs neighbours bought these big, ugly, plastic birds that are supposed to scare pigeons to no avail.
In the first week they were shitting on my patio!
It took me a little while longer and I had a few mishaps, getting superglue all over my hand, moving too early so the cd's came off, someone helpfully pulling the cd's apart after I glued them together!! But finally I finished it and put it up in the garden.
From the moment I stepped onto the ladder, with it dangling at my side, them yukky pigeons disappeared and haven't been seen since!
It's really simple
Collect as many old cd's as you can at least 10-12.
Glue them together with the shiny side on the outside
Glue the doubled cd's together leaving a hole
(or you have to make one later with a red hot metal skewer)
Add string and hang.
No more effin pigeons!!
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