"Sue" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote
"Sue" wrote
That's the general feeling round here in Norfolk. A couple of decades
back the farmers would have regular organised county-wide woodpigeon
shooting days. That doesn't seem to happen now, and we do have many
more pigeons around. You sometimes see vast flocks of them feeding in
fields, and there are definitely more making a nuisance of themselves
in our garden than there used to be when we moved here in 1980.

By 'nuisance' do you mean that they're eating your vegetables?

That's the only sort of nuisance I can think of. I net my (admittedly
small) vegetable plots to prevent that.

They did used to attack my veg and strip the broccoli until we netted
the plants, but they also make a horrible mess everywhere they go. The
the birdbath for instance: I go and clean it out and add fresh water -
then the pigeons arrive, throw their weight about so the other birds
can't get a look in, have a nice drink and then turn round and
poop in it!

They're the same on the birdtable if I put any loose food out, hogging
the lot and making a fine old mess. I wouldn't mind if there were only
one or two, but they seem to be taking over the neighbourhood like some
sort of avian gangster mob! ;-)

Perhaps if you stopped putting out food it would help, especially if the
other birds are not getting any.

Alan