pigeon

[BillStickers]

Those plastic owls or birds of prey you can use to stop pigeons from perching on - in my case, the pipes on the outside of my house, do they work?
Are they an effective deterant?
thanks

[McNoodle]

Grease works better.

[BillStickers]

Thanks, however the pipes are inaccessable.

[mrs_overall]

They may work in the short term but I bet you'd find the pigeons pecking, sitting on and using it as a toilet in a very short space of time. If you contact yoru local council they may know of an effective deterrent.

[Lonnie]

As mrs says, shirt time only, they're not daft, and soon realise that these things don't move.

[Buenchico]

When Ken Livingstone banned people from feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square, a falconer was introduced to deter the pigeons from landing there. I often saw the falconer, with a bird of prey on his wrist, standing in the Square while pigeons landed at his feet and on the walls around him, only a few feet away from the falcon. If pigeons aren't deterred by a live predator, I doubt that there's much chance that they'll be bothered by a fake one.

Chris

[katerich48]

I went to a flat once to judge a gardening comp - it was near Trafalgar Sq and it was on the roof of a block of flats - they had one of those plastic birds (I can't remember which one tho) and said it had been keeping all the pigeons away since they put it up.