Throwing out the question

[bktheirregular]

So I've got this small balcony off my bedroom, with a shed-cabinet-thing, about three feet tall and four wide and three deep, with a double door that won't latch closed. And apparently word's gotten out to the local pigeon community that the shed would make a nice nesting place. This despite my having disposed of one nest already.

As a newcomer to fending off wildlife ... how would you go about dissuading pigeons? (Bearing in mind that I may not have the resources in Athens that one would have stateside, and also that I don't have any guns to shoot them with.)

Comments

[twistedchick]

Put a rubber snake where they want to nest. That's worked in other places. If they don't consider it safe, they should go elsewhere.

[bktheirregular]

That actually makes some sense! Now if I could just figure out where to find one here.

[twistedchick]

Toy store? Costume shop? Amazon?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Well, somebody has to be the first to post it:

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Flash content is blocked at work here so I can't see what you posted at all, but my first thought was of "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park." Did I guess right?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Yup. Do check it when it's not blocked; somebody posted a bunch of old clips of Tom singing most of his "light classics," which, even though I know them all by heart, I hadn't seen him performing them in close to 40 years:)

[marzouki.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Hang some CDs with string. Blanks, the ones you get with the newspaper, it doesn't matter, as long as they're shiny and are hung so they can rotate with the wind.
There are other ways (like nails on the rail so the pigeons can't land) but this is the easiest.

Good luck!