Does anyone have suggestions for how to keep the woodpigeons off my cherry tree? Other than pigeon pie
For the first year or two I had lots of really nice, bright red cherries from it. Then the woodpigeons learned that they could eat the buds/flowers/immature fruit and I've hardly had any since.
I tried a net and that got horribly caught up in it, and the tree is a bit big for that now (about 4 m tall). Old CDs and plastic owls didn't keep them off for long.
A Vietnamese colleague of mine years ago used to take clear plastic bags & micro climate protect the fruit from birds, sure there were cherry tree's in that lot, a few years later though i think they erected a solid plastic mesh cage set up as tying bags on was all consuming, course these days it might attract the council, ..if so point them at the potholes.
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BISFBath wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:05 pm
Does anyone have suggestions for how to keep the woodpigeons off my cherry tree? Other than pigeon pie
For the first year or two I had lots of really nice, bright red cherries from it. Then the woodpigeons learned that they could eat the buds/flowers/immature fruit and I've hardly had any since.
I tried a net and that got horribly caught up in it, and the tree is a bit big for that now (about 4 m tall). Old CDs and plastic owls didn't keep them off for long.
If you have a good stereo system you could set up an artificial "banger" with random timing or just borrow a farmers gas banger and wait for the cpmplaints from your neighbors. Whats wrong with pigeon pie although pigeon stew might be better.
Pigeon is very under rated, unless its a syphillis filled city flying rat.
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If you have got a shot gun licence and a double barrelled shot gun.
That could sort out the problem in seconds.
There would be less branches for the Pigeon to land on.
ALAN/ALAN D wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:55 am
If you have got a shot gun licence and a double barrelled shot gun.
That could sort out the problem in seconds.
There would be less branches for the Pigeon to land on.
Pretty certain your not allowed to shoot / kill them now.
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ALAN/ALAN D wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:55 am
If you have got a shot gun licence and a double barrelled shot gun.
That could sort out the problem in seconds.
There would be less branches for the Pigeon to land on.
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by coincidence this weekend someone I met told me that after he put an ultrasonic mouse-repeller in his shed the bats vanished (he found a lot a few fields or gardens away) so he switched it off...
I guess the pigeon-repeller could / would be powered down overnight though.
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