Brigg pidgeons

By daedulus13 | Thursday, February 02, 2012, 10:09

The pidgeon droppings outside Martins Boots & Poundstretchers are becoming a nuisance and are not a nice sight to visitors in Brigg. We need to ensure that they are cleaned every day by washing and sweeping. My visitors last week had their clothes covered in droppings as they walked next to the scaffolding (that now appears to be a permanent part og Brigg) adjacent to the fish shop. The droppings are also a health hazarrd to young children and adults with breathing difficulties. We should also consider emplying the services of a Falconer to drive the away and destroy their eggs before they increase any more. What do they do in Trafalgar square?

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You had me worried for a while, everredy.
I was trying to work out what a 'stuffed faloon' was!
The use if a falcon, or another bird of prey can be useful in certain situations.
A trained falcon are often used at airports to keep their airfields clear of large flocks of birds, which could otherwise run the risk of being ingested into a jet's engine.
The trained falcon scares the flock away....and the flock is displaced to a 'safe' field some distance away.
Use a falcon to scare the Brigg pigeons ...and I suggest that the flock will be displaced to another local site.....and the basic problem remains.

But what the reasons why the pigeon number has increased disproportionately over the last 12 months?
Initially, they had access to an open roof space, which gave them a warm and sheltered roost. These conditions probably helped to increase the pigeon number in the breeding season.
But they still need a source of food. Discarded chips, the odd bit of pizza and such other morsel are obviously in such a plentiful supply about Brigg centre to support a pigeon flock of circa 500.
Similarly dropped food will also attract rats.
So one solution to reduce the number of unwanted creatures about Brigg is cut off their food supply.
This comes back to the boring problem of litter....if some folks cleaned up their acts - ensuring litter and discarded food goes in a bin, this would have significant impact of the number unwanted critters about Brigg.

By Phred_Fillips at 11:46 on 05/02/12
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does anyone know if anyone has a stufffed faloon as this has been kown to deter pidgon's.
a kite [not the bird] shaped as a falcon flown above also deters them.
or even a live one hired for a while..

By everredy at 07:35 on 05/02/12
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@Wednesday58 Can you see the weakness of your argument to deter the pigeons from Marin McColls by laying anti-roosting netting on its roof?

Fungus and diseases carried by pigeons, or their droppings can carry sometimes fatal diseases that can affect human lungs and nervous systems. The young and old are comparably more vulnerable.
Another disease can cause blindness,

Do your 'save-wildlife' argument extend to rats, fleas, mosquitoes?

The biggest life saver during the last 150 years has been the improvements in Public Health - clean water, proper sewers and the control of vermin and such like.

By Phred_Fillips at 15:05 on 04/02/12
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It's unfortunate that some humans think they can play God. Some won't be happy until all wildlife is wiped out. Not aware of pigeons wiping out any other wildlife species. A bit of netting above Martins and the problem is solved. I don't mean netting to trap them- I am talking about netting to stop them roosting, as they have on many large buildings in cities.

Do you lot really think a 'cull' is the answer? As if pigeons can't fly and settle where they think fit. They'd be back in a week. Rather like the Taliban, kill one and two will take their place.

By Wednesday58 at 12:34 on 04/02/12
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@ Wednesday58 .They are undisputably airborne vermin. BTW Pidgeon is the archaic spelling of pigeon , Brigg can and will flourish without modernisms thank you.

By prokopchuk at 19:16 on 03/02/12
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