Those wretched Pigeons and Doves!!!

are RUINING my Hostas and Ferns! They keep landing/forraging on a shady/damp bit of garden I'm sooo proud of because it's getting better each season and the Hostas and Ferns are growing wonderfully. What can I do - apart from Shoot them (I don't have a gun...) to stop these PESTS please? I don't live in the Town but Rurally...

Springy

 

Farmers shoot them here and they use bird scarers locally, but the sleepless nights might put you off. As with other similar debates (for which Ive been chastised) your choice is personal and how you feel about these pests. Good luck with this internal debate

 

My dad used to put old knitting needles with the points up and fishing line in between his plants.

It's so annoying when you get pests ruining your plants.
They land in my cordilines sp? pecking away.

 

Dont get me started on pigeons, they crap on my patio all the time and i gave up on the hostas a couple of years ago :(

 

i know what you mean..... a few doors down from me a guy keep pigeons, and i can garantee i wash the patio or even worse i clean the car everyweek thay will doop on it.... really gets on my nerves "i hate em".....

 

Hmmm in a way you are lucky. Doves are on the decline ..... BUT I cannot stand pigeons either. I could always send my Jackdaws and Carrion Crows over ?? They will bully your little problem hahahah

 

Hi im in lincolnshire also.I know away of getting rid of those birds...my pet.Meet sky

 

The pidgeon slayer

 

wow . isn't this a lovely bird

 

PHP:

a few doors down from me a guy keep pigeons, and i can garantee i wash the patio or even worse i clean the car everyweek thay will doop on it.... really gets on my nerves "i hate em"..

at least you can see it I have neighbours with cats you usually end up with it on your hands when they dump their load in your garden.

 

Ow lovely ill need to borrow him (her...?):D lol only joking, they fly birds of prey around the dump near where i live generally just to scare them although, if that doesn't work they let them have some fun:thumb:

 

I've just bought one of these water jet spray repellers http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...tails/202-2987602-5631862?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
for the cats, but it does say it works for birds too.