"alan holmes" wrote in message
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Pigeons can be detered by using something bright red near the stuff you
are trying to protect, I had trouble last year with the bloody things
eating the sprouts before they wre hardly out of the ground, so I put some
bright red tops from peanut butter jars on the ground near the sprouts,
and the pigeons never came near them again.

Thanks for that - I'll give it a try; I have a few rather fat wood pigeons
round me and quite a few smaller, but more aggressive (and better looking!)
'Japanese Doves'. The latter don't seem to be interested in my vegetable
patch, as yet, but then they might be just waiting for the first shoots...

Mark