I'll kill these f**king pigeons!

[Craven Morasian]

Okay..........I'm joking about the killing part.
This summer my building has been virtually held hostage by scores of pigeons that seem to enjoy sitting on my balcony and deciding that it would be a great place to empty their little bird bowels.
Every day I have to clean up their mess and I am getting very tired of it.
Yesterday I watched one of my fellow tenants go momentarily berserk and go after them with a hockey stick.
Has anyone gone through this before?

Would appreciate any tips on how to keep pigeons off my balcony and away from my apartment.
Thanks a lot.

Craven.

 

[TravellingGuy]

Eat Them

During one of my visits to England I had the pleasure of eating at a very nice 5 star restaurant in a luxorious hotel (www.tylneyhall.com). When I travel to new places I try to select unusual foods, local delicacies etc. While there I had the roast pigeon. Very similar to baby duck, juicy dark meat and not much of it, but delicious in taste.

I strongly recommend catching them all and opening up a Souvlaki type stand on your street corner offering Roast Pigeon as a selection on the menu.

 

[ExoticJade]

Dirty Filthy Disgusting ...

I have seen everything used from plastic bags, twirly kid fans, chicken wire, brooms, hockey sticks and bb guns.
My personal favourite ... a dog ... my r/m's dog scared them away so much last year that it is like they remember my area and leave us be this year, but it is probably her scent.
Some neighbours did not appreciate her barking but they loved the results soooo they tolerate her being a little yappy.

What kills me is the idiots who feed these birds from their balconies .... arghhh!


Jade

 

[Asterix]

Until recently I had them in my attic, and while some may find their incessant cooing soothing, I ain't one of them. Wire mesh, and lots of it, eventually solved the problem (amazing what tiny little spaces they can squeeze their bodies through).


TG,

I'm sure the pigeon in that 5 star restaurant was clean and delicious, but back here I'm not eating any animal that feeds off the street.

 

[TravellingGuy]

Animals off the street

I wouldnt eat one off the street either, but I once had an interesting conversation with a co-worker of some asian type decent. He would tell us about the common foods eaten in his homeland, rat-kabobs etc, and how they would rather eat their neighbours dog because they know its been well fed as opposed to an animal from the wild. I guess if you want to raise rats and pigeons for food its no different then other livestock.

I've recently been doing some work for Slaughterhouses, been to large Pork and Beef facilities, and although it didnt bother me, some people would never eat meat again if they went to these places.

I had rattlesnake while at the Grand Canyon last summer, that was an interesting eat, very chewy.

 

[ExoticJade]

Don't the Bert's ...

in this world drive you insane?


Re: Bert & Ernie (Sesame Street characters) ..... Bert loves those bird rodents so much he does a dance that imitates them.


Jade

P.S. I watch SS just for Elmo .... plus part of my course last year was actually watching SS for about 10 hours.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know why the Canadian version is called Sesame Park?



Sunny Days Keeping the Clouds Away ... (now I have this darn song in my head)

 

[QB7]

pigeons

Craven

Now you know why there are bumper stickers seen around New York City that read

"Keep New York clean - eat a pigeon for lunch".

There may be a business here for some entrepreneurial Torontonian.

Cheers

QB7

 

[Asterix]

Slightly off topic, OK a lot off topic, but nearly a quarter of the world's population eat insects and such as a significant part of their diet. How squeamish we are in the West by comparison.

TG, I respect your willingness to try unusual foods, and wonder if in your travels you ever came across this on the menu (I haven't).

To anyone who finds this nauseating, my apologies in advance.

As far as the meat industry, I suspect a visit to one of their plants might put me off meat for a long time. I don't think we're as far from Sinclair's "The Jungle", as we would like to believe.

 

[Jamm]

Re: Eat Them

I strongly recommend catching them all and opening up a Souvlaki type stand on your street corner offering Roast Pigeon as a selection on the menu. [/QUOTE]

Too bad the Danforth Festival was quickly finished .That was a good one Lmao.

 

[GlavaMan]

Pigeons

I used to have the same problem with them on my balcony.
I would feed them bread with hot chili sauce all over it. They still ate it & came around.

Then I got a stuffed owl & they don't come 'round here no more!


Glava

 

[Craven Morasian]

The stuffed owl routine, eh Glava? Before I spend the money (how much anyway?) I might try the plastic version first.
Think they would work?

These disease-ridden little bastards are disgusting. Day or night it doesn't seem to matter to them. They're bold too. I've shot at them with a water pistol and they just look at me as if to say "hey asshole..........I'm trying to have a dump here!"
And thanks EJ. I will consider the twirly fans but I don't really want all kinds of Loblaws bags dangling off my balcony.
And you're so right about the mindless dorks that actually go out of their way to feed these vermin in a residential area.
Those people are definitely worthy of the hockey stick approach.
So until someone comes up with something better...............I guess it's the plastic owl and twirly fans.
Maybe I should get some penguins and pink flamingos to complete the look. LOL

Craven.

 

[Teddybear]

...the plastic ones...

...work very well. try moving the owl around every few weeks, so they don't realize that it's just balcony furniture.

 

[GlavaMan]

owls

The plastic ones work well. I picked up the stuffed one at a garage sale for $5.

 

[KBear]

Could upgrade from the water pistol to a super soaker rifle. Think it would be good entertainment before you get the owl, and you could also use it to wash off the balcony.

My friend had the same problem, she just swatted them off the balcony with a broom.

 

[Cool Dude]

A 16 guage Remmington!

So until someone comes up with something better...............I guess it's the plastic owl and twirly fans.

At close range.

 

[vidi vici veni]

Kill'em!

Okay..........I'm joking about the killing part. [snip, snip, snip]
Would appreciate any tips on how to keep pigeons off my balcony and away from my apartment. Thanks a lot. Craven.

My solution was to put netting up on my balcony. If any managed to get inside, I took a child's baseball bat to them. Had to kill about six persistent ones over the course of a month. Didn't see any pigeons come around after that.

vvv

 

[TravellingGuy]

Re: Don't the Bert's ...

Out of curiousity, does anyone know why the Canadian version is called Sesame Park?

Off the top of my head (and by no means the real reason), perhaps someone thought Sesame Street encouraged kids to play in the street, in Canada we want to promote safety for children so we have them in a park instead.

Sounds like a feasible explanation to me.

 

[TravellingGuy]

TG, I respect your willingness to try unusual foods, and wonder if in your travels you ever came across this on the menu (I haven't).

I've never found insects on a menu yet, I'm not sure if I want to. Any insects I've seen being eaten (generally in documentaries) they are eaten live, theres just something about trying to swallow a madagascarian cockroach live bothers me.

This one girl I dated travelled and loved exotic foods as well, we had a competition one night over dinner discussing who had eaten the oddest foods. She won with her Goat's Brains in Greece, apparently slightly cooked, the outside a little crispy yet the inside still mushy.

Best I could do was when I had a blind date in Tokyo (these girls that wanted to go out and try and speak english all night) where I learned some interesting Japanese customs. The girl ordered all my food for me and prepared it for me at the table. She had trouble explaining one item to me which apparently if she translated it poorly was Goat Scrotum. Wether it was or wasn't I'm not sure, but she certainly enjoyed watching me eat it.

 

[Craven Morasian]

Thanks

I appreciate all the helpful tips and will keep you posted.
First I'll try the plastic owls. If that ain't working..................I guess it'll be Remington time.

Craven.

 

[vidi vici veni]

If I had a rocket launcher......

Earlier this evening I was outside the Spadina subway station. I saw an old women feed a whole five pound bag of birdseed to a flock of pigeons. Grrrr! It took all the restraint I could muster to resist going up to her, snatching the plastic bag from out of her hands, and then pulling it down over her head. Pardon the language but what a stupid old bitch!

Oh yeah, if I had a rocket launcher, there would have been feathers and blood spattered remains all over the facade of the subway station.

vvv
Now, grumpier than ever!