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[Tom D]

You've probably seen those little metal spikes used to stop pigeons roosting on window ledges and signs etc.

 

Look what this nest is made of..

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I once found a magpies nest that was made up (around 50%) of brick ties!

[Tree Man Tom]

I once found a magpies nest that was made up (around 50%) of brick ties!

 

Yh ive found one like that to, a bugger really cuz it stopped me putting it all through the chipper.

[tommer9]

I love it. I HATE those things- they make everywhere look totally 'surrey'...(which is fine in surrey i guess lol)

[John Barleycorn]

My daughter in London spotted a pidgeon nest made completely out of plastic forks.

[Ben90]

Haha, Pigeons are brilliantly lazy when it comes to next building, they just pile up a load of sticks in a fork and hope for the best, it's almost as if they play Ker-Plunk with their eggs!

[skyhuck]

Haha, Pigeons are brilliantly lazy when it comes to next building, they just pile up a load of sticks in a fork and hope for the best, it's almost as if they play Ker-Plunk with their eggs!

 

LOL!!! That is SOOOOOOOOOOOO true!!!

[John Barleycorn]

Woodpidgeon kept building a nest in a tree overlooking my veggie patch, probably so it could just pop down for lunch.

No matter how many times i knocked out the sticks it would rebuild.

Solved it by stuffing an old white plastic football in the tree, seems to have spooked it.

[skyhuck]

Just thinking about it, is it Doves that make those really poor nests not Pigeons???

[Ben90]

I've climbed many a tree (recreationally) with pigeon nests and the pigeons sat in them looking a little startled as well as embarrassed. I think the poo-and-sticks philosophy rings true for both of them.