Does anyone have a reasonably humane and cheap method of getting rid of a large (100 + birds) infestation of pigeons. I’m not sqeamish about the fate of the birds, all the same I am not prepared to terminate with extreme prejudice just yet. Poisons are absolutley right out for various very good reasons.
I am trying a process of feeding them with laying mash laced heavily with alcohol - someone told me this would convince the pigeons that the food around my joint was no good and they would find somewhere else. But apart from a lot of very sozzled pigeons flying into walls, it doesn’t really seem to have had much effect. Is this urban myth or does it take time?
As I mentioned recently in a thread on woodpecker deterrence, the "Scare Eyes balloons haven’t been shown to work on woodpeckers. But I believe they are effective on pigeons. They’re one of the cheaper deterrents. Plasstic owls and hawks have, I know, worked in other places.
