plastic owl - decoy - pigeon deterent

[Dean O]

visited a customer who wanted a lovely looking beech ravaged to save pigeon poo on their cars.

 

ive suggested pruning back and installing a plastic owl to keep the pigeons away. bit outside the box perhaps but is it likely to work?

[WirralBoy]

Plastic Owl.

 

Yes, that will act as a deterrent . . . . . . . . . . for about 48 hours.

 

They are a very, very, very short term solution.

[IanW]

air rife is quite effective??

[TreeswingerPerth]

They don't work in my experience .

[bobh]

The only time I've seen them even remotely work was in a around a silage pit where the owl was moved to a different position daily and the chap also had 2 or 3 different one so would swap the over periodically so it looked like a different bird.

Still didn't work for much more than 3 months

[FatherJack]

air rife is quite effective??

 

:thumbup:

(for all types of vermin)

[Alycidon]

They don't work in my experience .

 

Head shots they are fine.

 

A

[IanW]

Head shots they are fine.

 

 

 

A

 

 

hahaha

 

...... very affective

[wisecobandit]

When you see them roosting and nesting beside the plastic owl you know it doesn't work.

Prob a more effective solution is hanging old cd's or something on string but as said an air rifle is the best solution lol

[Stubby]

Fly a Harris Hawk from time to time . That works .