Bird Scarers

[cheshiremaserati]

I have not read all the pages on this thread.
I have put up plastic pigeon spikes on all roof ridges and gutter clip-on spikes for pigeons.

The company is called Defender, they are very helpful. They have larger spikes for seagulls. Give them a call. I found them very helpful and bought my spikes from them.

The Hawk fly-by is very expensive and needs 3 x week for 3 months at £120 per fly-by. Neighbours benefit, but won't chip in with the cost. Hawks are used in Trafalgar Square, football stadia, airports, shopping malls. Very effective but very expensive.

Sonics, kites etc don't work and are a waste of money. The pests realise these are artificial and ignore them.

Spiking roofs (ridges), chimney pots, guttering and outdoor piping is probably your best bet. These vermin perch high to get a good view for food.

 

[Scaf]

To be honest I’d bugger off if a massive bald bloke was waving his phone around in the garden regardless of what noise it was making.

Apparently they don’t like red shoes

 

[Felonious Crud]

Especially if he was wearing red shoes

IF??

 

[Felonious Crud]

Apparently they don’t like red shoes

Not that daft then, are they?

 

[Nayf]

In a bid to afford a Ghibli Cup I am now available to stand in your garden for £30/hour shouting and screaming in a bid to ward off the avian menace. Costumes are extra.

 

[2b1ask1]

Are you wanting mileage too?




I’d pay for an hour just for the giggles from the grandkids watching a grown man prattling about in the garden!

 

[Nayf]

Are you wanting mileage too?

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I’d pay for an hour just for the giggles from the grandkids watching a grown man prattling about in the garden!

You’re on. I’ve spent today being used as a climbing frame by my wife’s friends’ kids so I am more than used to this kind of thing.

 

[GeoffCapes]

In a bid to afford a Ghibli Cup I am now available to stand in your garden for £30/hour shouting and screaming in a bid to ward off the avian menace. Costumes are extra.

As amusing as this would be, seagulls are the slightest bit concerned about people shouting and screaming at them. Sadly.

 

[GeoffCapes]

The YouTube clip is still doing the job!
Think I may have found a winner!

 

[Scaf]

The YouTube clip is still doing the job!
Think I may have found a winner!

My brother had problems with rats once at his basement flat in London.
A farmer friend of mine offered to come and sort it, he described that his technique, passed down his family for generations, was to take a live rat, dip it in petrol, set fire to it near where the rats nest, and let it go, the resulting screeching etc is guaranteed to empty the nest for good.

Truly horrendous…….
My brother called rentokil again instead……..

 

[Felonious Crud]

My brother had problems with rats once at his basement flat in London.
A farmer friend of mine offered to come and sort it, he described that his technique, passed down his family for generations, was to take a live rat, dip it in petrol, set fire to it near where the rats nest, and let it go, the resulting screeching etc is guaranteed to empty the nest for good.

Truly horrendous…….
My brother called rentokil again instead……..

I can see that would work. Rats are really smart, caring animals. They feel anguish and pain in a similar way to us humans. It's such a shame we are so repelled by them, otherwise dealing with them would be much easier.

 

[CatmanV2]

I can see that would work. Rats are really smart, caring animals. They feel anguish and pain in a similar way to us humans. It's such a shame we are so repelled by them, otherwise dealing with them would be much easier.

Dealing with them in what way? As vectors of disease and unpleasantness (at least the wild versions), it's a reasonable survival trait to be repelled.

C

 

[Felonious Crud]

Dealing with them in what way? As vectors of disease and unpleasantness (at least the wild versions), it's a reasonable survival trait to be repelled.

C

I'm not disagreeing... but it would feel barbaric to set one on fire.

 

[midlifecrisis]

But it would be effective, no vermin and Ratatouille for tea.

 

[CatmanV2]

I'm not disagreeing... but it would feel barbaric to set one on fire.

Oh absolutely! No way would I do that. There are far more humane ways of dealing with them

C

 

[GeoffCapes]

Hopefully I'm not speaking too soon, but I think playing the YouTube clip is doing the job.

Barely any seagulls about this morning.

Think I'll have to keep playing it once or twice a day to keep things like they are.

 

[Felonious Crud]

Oh absolutely! No way would I do that. There are far more humane ways of dealing with them

C

Vogon poetry?

 

[Felonious Crud]

Hopefully I'm not speaking too soon, but I think playing the YouTube clip is doing the job.

Barely any seagulls about this morning.

Think I'll have to keep playing it once or twice a day to keep things like they are.

You got a link, Dorothy?

 

[GeoffCapes]

You got a link, Dorothy?

Doesn't sound great to the human ear, and even less so to seagulls so it would appear.

 

[CatmanV2]

Vogon poetry?

I said more humane!

(In our case it was lead poisoning, and I felt bad enough about that)

C