Posted January 28, 20205 yr HI Guys My technical mind is failing me with this challenge. a client of mine has raised a point to me that some pigeons are nesting under the solar panels on his tile roof and its noisy. Some ideas to overcome this please? Perhaps this is more technical than I imagine. Fazil
January 28, 20205 yr I saw a product once called 'Flock Off'. No idea if it worked, but the name made me chuckle. You could try rubber snakes, and there are various ultrasonic things that help. Mirrors or CDs moving in the wind also apparently help.
January 28, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Fazil said: a client of mine has raised a point to me that some pigeons are nesting under the solar panels on his tile roof and its noisy. Pigeons! They are $%*& rats with wings! I hate them. If it was legal to shoot in an urban area they'd all be dead. I thought about poison, but I don't want to kill anything anything else in the food chain. The dog does chase them but the cheeky bastards are so used to him, they simply jump from one side of the table (on the back "stoep") to the other as he runs around the table. The only thing I know that works is to spray them with water. I actually had a sprinkler kit installed on the side of the house where they roost on a ledge each night (bird sh*t everywhere that has to be hosed off with a pressure washer), and it works really well. Never finished it, the plan was simply a timed blast every 5 minutes around the times they come in to roost. I had a spare pressure pump around from some experiments during the big Cape Town drought (technically not completely over yet) which I used for this. Didn't finish it, but the proof of concept was 100% successful. So... that is the best I can suggest. A bit of pipe running to the area where they cause trouble, and them simply spray them whenever they get noisy. Edited January 28, 20205 yr by plonkster
January 28, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, Fazil said: Some ideas to overcome this please? I had the same problem. What I did is to close the gap between the roof and the panels with plastic fencing. It has been on the roof for about 2 years and I don't have any problems with pigeons under the panels anymore.
January 28, 20205 yr 2 hours ago, DeepBass9 said: You could try rubber snakes Those work. But only for a while. Birds (and all birds, not just pigeons) soon learn that the snakes never move.
January 29, 20205 yr Soooo i'm not the only one!! sjoe!!! Days just after i installed my pannels , this 2 gray rats with wings i called them, pitch up. One morning I host them lekker down with water, but the just keep coming back at night time. I had the same plan that Fuenkli did so I just need to do it. It's like the program/born to do this. My 17 year old cat is lazy to go catch them.
January 29, 20205 yr On 2020/01/28 at 9:44 AM, Fuenkli said: I had the same problem. What I did is to close the gap between the roof and the panels with plastic fencing. It has been on the roof for about 2 years and I don't have any problems with pigeons under the panels anymore. You should put those cables in some conduit. Or leave the PVC to perish to electrocute the pigeons!
January 29, 20205 yr I own a .177 silenced broomstick. That is all I'm permitted to say. Chat to your neighbours, explain the problem they might share your feelings. Pigeon poop in rain water collection systems are unhygienic and a hassle. Rock pigeons (Speckled pigeons) are the biggest problem, the normal cape turtle doves aren't. Using the broomstick is the only effective measure I've found. The rock pigeons aren't endangered and are actually a pest and considered to be a species that actually displace other endangered birds. PM me if you want detail. I'm not advising anyone to break the law here. You need to find a effective solution to this problem by yourself. There is this though: https://www.birdfreesa.co.za/shop/bird-free-optical-gel/
January 31, 20205 yr I have the exact same issue, man I hate pigeons so much... The plastic fencing seems like a reasonable enough cheap solution, worried it might be a bit noisy on a metal roof in the CT wind though.
June 11, 2024Jun 11 If you on a farm i have a few shotgun sporting shooters that will love to come shoot some flocks our for you at no charge The birds are given to the farm workers giving them food
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