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How can I chase off a wayward racing pigeon that has for the past week been crapping all over my roof, it is surprising how much of the stuff one bird can deposit.
It has got to go!!.
 
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Galaxy66 said:
How can I chase off a wayward racing pigeon that has for the past week been crapping all over my roof, it is surprising how much of the stuff one bird can deposit.
It has got to go!!.
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This guy may help...

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Look at what's in front of him :lol:

Other than that, make sure there's no food in the garden, once they find a source of food they'll keep coming back (That's why we don't have a bird table any more....)

Steve
 
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Well my original plan was to catch it and send it on its way with a message attached stating where and when it was found and released, I have done this before and received thanks from the owner, but after just missing out on grabbing it I can not get close to it now. In any case if this bird ever makes it back to the cree it will probably have a death sentence served on it for taking an unauthorised stopover at our house for over a week.
I do have bird feeders not a bird table but this pigeon has not been seen anywhere near them.
I have tried flinging handfuls of gravel, shooting to miss with the rifle and, clapping my hands loudly but it will not go away. Shooting it with my rifle would be easy but I would rather not do this. I do not know anyone with a hawk although my garden is often visited by Sparrowhawks and Kestrels
I am in fact sitting here looking out the window at the damn thing dropping more of its crap:bang:
Looks like it will be the rifle soon..........shame.
 
Are you sure its a racer or is it a feral? if the latter they will stay and probabley breed
once a suitable area has been found.
Again if its feral they are on the general "licence" and can be culled with a "clear conscience"
They carry upto 12 different diseases. ( more than rats)
If its a wayward racer its likely to get its neck stretched if you return it anyway.
This type of errent bird is "useless" as racer if it got lost once, "they only get lost once" ;)
 
Definitely a racer Chris, unless feral pigeons have started wearing a ring on one foot and have a habit of collecting elastic bands on the other :D.

Looks like I will be looking through the scope of my rifle soon as the poo is building up and if it gets on Mrs G's clean washing it will be despatched immediately!!.
 
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Definitely a racer Chris, unless feral pigeons have started wearing a ring on one foot and have a habit of collecting elastic bands on the other :D.

Looks like I will be looking through the scope of my rifle soon as the poo is building up and if it gets on Mrs G's clean washing it will be despatched immediately!!.
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Some ferals have bands but unlikely to have the elastic ones :D
Seriously though, the folks that I am aware of hardly ever want a "lost racer" returned" if it was me I would definitely "sort it" pigeon crap stains everything it touches and is very difficult (almost impossible) to remove from paving slabs, brickwork etc.
 
We occasionally have one stay with us for a few days, I am not keen on them in case they bring in any diseases to my poultry but I generally give them some wheat in the farthest corner of the garden and they leave within a few days.

One year it was a very tame one (too tame with, as I had then, five Dobermanns around) so I put it in a cage, rang the number marked on its wings and someone came and collected it
 
The wayward pigeon has now had an unfortunate accident and is no longer with us:(
 
How you get red of it G?

Could of had our dog like :)
 
i suspect it died of some sort of piosoning ( lead ?? )
 
Looks like I came across this thread too late. I hope you're kidding about the 'accident' as you have probably just killed someones livelihood. My dad races pigeons and this is his lively hood, he recently had 3 of his best birds go missing during racing in the recent bad fog. The pigeon you had hanging around was one of these lost pigeons (hence the elastic band, which is actually a race band), not necessarily one of my dads, but someone elses.

I hope you're proud of yourself! My father lost well over a thousands pounds worth of birds in the 3 he lost, not to mention probably up to 9 times that again and more from the lost offspring of those birds. Not money he can afford to lose.

For the record, if anyone finds a racer in their garden, the correct thing to do is leave it for up to about two weeks, if it hasn't gone on its way by then (because sometimes they just stop for a rest having flown hundreds of miles).. then try some of the helpful info HERE.

I would also like to point out that what you did was VERY much illegal. You were made aware of the fact it was NOT a feral, but indeed a racing pigeon. Don't even try pulling the "I didn't admit to doing anything" card either.
 
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Are you sure its a racer or is it a feral? if the latter they will stay and probabley breed
once a suitable area has been found.
Again if its feral they are on the general "licence" and can be culled with a "clear conscience"
They carry upto 12 different diseases. ( more than rats)
If its a wayward racer its likely to get its neck stretched if you return it anyway.
This type of errent bird is "useless" as racer if it got lost once, "they only get lost once" ;)
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Not necessarily true Chris :( There are circumstances where they get lost or fly offtrack, then stop for a rest because they exhaust themselves. Like bad weather, and being chased by a Peregrine! If the bird is valuable (like my dads were) they are worth returning. I agree some aren't, but you could never possibly know without checking with the owner if this is the case. Unfortunately the new rules about returning birds make this very difficult.

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Some feral have bands but unlikely to have the elastic ones :D
Seriously though, the folks that I am aware of hardly ever want a "lost racer" returned" if it was me I would definitely "sort it" pigeon crap stains everything it touches and is very difficult (almost impossible) to remove from paving slabs, brickwork etc.
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I know my dad would likely have considered paying someone to have said outdoor slabs and bricks cleaned, if it meant having his prize winners back. These prize winners aren't just worth money, the prizes they win are also a great loss if the birds go missing... for instance, my dad won a car with the Great Northern Race in the early years. Not small prizes.

I'm sorry folks if you think I am being harsh, but I heard the upset in my dads voice when he called me to tell me of his lost birds. On top of that I HATE animal cruelty.
 
well anyone who takes some birds hundreds of miles away in a truck then chucks them out the back and expects them to get home without a map or satnav is asking to lose them . i think i would have used a flame thrower , ,,,,,saves cooking them later
 
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