Any ideas of getting rid of birds off my roof?

oscash

oscash

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Sydney - Australia
I've been living here for 12 years now and have never had this problem. New people have moved in next door, and I was wondering why so many birds have been
landing on my roof, theirs and the house next door to them. It's like an Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds". There must be at least 200 of the critters. The other morning, I came out of my back door and saw the woman throwing food all over the place and the result was birds going berserk. This happens twice a day. They are crapping all over the place and my son had to move my clothesline to the side of my house to stop the washing getting soiled. I turn the hose on them whenever
I hear them on my roof. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of them.?
 

I LOVE birds but can see your problem and suspect in your case parrots which will not be fooled by fake plastic predators . Water will do it like a hose , sprinkle type system on roof connected to a hose.
 

I don't know how neighbors relate to on another where you live. Here we feel free to talk to a new neighbor, open a friendly atmosphere for communication, and then be able to take up a concern in a relaxed way.

Not everyone has a clothes dryer, and naturally many people prefer open-air clothes drying on sunny days. Might your neighbor understand that? Could you suggest feeding birds at feeders, rather than by scattering?
 
JBR said:
I don't know how neighbors relate to on another where you live. Here we feel free to talk to a new neighbor, open a friendly atmosphere for communication, and then be able to take up a concern in a relaxed way.

Not everyone has a clothes dryer, and naturally many people prefer open-air clothes drying on sunny days. Might your neighbor understand that? Could you suggest feeding birds at feeders, rather than by scattering?
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More and more people are inconsiderate but agree with talking first .

I have in the yard a 125 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank with platys , guppies but at night I put a heavy screen on it as the area is full of Cuban treefrogs and did not want the noise bothering my neighbors and during mating season they are unreal and you can tell who has a pool in their yard due to the noise .
 
oscash said:
Hi JBR - Thanks for your input but these neighbours are not at all friendly. She wears the Hijab and he in his Muslem outfit. Don't even bother to say Hello. I suppose I could get in touch with the Council and see what they think.
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Do not be fooled by that .

It took my neighbors roughly 2 years to acknowledge my existence here in Miami , lol and you could not find nicer people .
 
OldFeller said:
I had a next door neighbor for years but he died. But one thing he told me was that hanging a fake owl scared pidgeons away from his roof. He didnt explain what gave him the idea but he was surprised that it worked.

A place where I once worked put up fake wolves around the places where wild geese began to congregate. That scsred the geese away.
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I think is Australia a fake rubber snake as they have bird predator smaller carpet pythons will do it unless parrots as they are to smart and figure it out rather fast .
 
OldFeller said:
I had a next door neighbor for years but he died. But one thing he told me was that hanging a fake owl scared pidgeons away from his roof. He didnt explain what gave him the idea but he was surprised that it worked.
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We have one in our blueberry patch. The term sometimes used is a "scare owl". I believe numerous retail outlets carry them. One placed near where you hang laundry might work, but I don't know if just one placement would do the job for a whole house.
 
I tell you what's also bad, is one of my neighbours is feeding monkey nuts to Squirrels...loads of shells are discarded in my garden

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... the squirrels are running along my fence and trellis, and they broke 2 fence panels and trellises this past summer...

I've asked all the neighbours whose feeding the squirrels.. and they all deny it.. but I know almost certainly who it is, they just won't fess up..
 
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The cure for you bird problem is easy- shoot your neighbor lady. I had one of those, who use to "feed the deer". The problem was she also feeding anything with fur that wondered by. She was attracting bears, and she had 3-5 year old kids in the yard. Everybody around here knows feeding wildlife is not a good idea, no matter how cute it looks. When she moved, her neighbors ( including me) were flooded with lots of starving mice, which were used to getting fed. It sounds just like your bird problem.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
The cure for you bird problem is easy- shoot your neighbor lady. I had one of those, who use to "feed the deer". The problem was she also feeding anything with fur that wondered by. She was attracting bears, and she had 3-5 year old kids in the yard. Everybody around here knows feeding wildlife is not a good idea, no matter how cute it looks. When she moved, her neighbors ( including me) were flooded with lots of starving mice, which were used to getting fed. It sounds just like your bird problem.
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l'm grateful we don't have wildlife here. l guess it was too stressful to bring them over in a canoe. And Captain Cook only brought over rats and mice, which was bad enough.
 
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fuzzybuddy said:
The cure for you bird problem is easy- shoot your neighbor lady. I had one of those, who use to "feed the deer". The problem was she also feeding anything with fur that wondered by. She was attracting bears, and she had 3-5 year old kids in the yard. Everybody around here knows feeding wildlife is not a good idea, no matter how cute it looks. When she moved, her neighbors ( including me) were flooded with lots of starving mice, which were used to getting fed. It sounds just like your bird problem.
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I love animals but yes would not want bears in my yard as afraid of them and they are machines of destruction .

I had all my cherry tomatoes , parsley and non hot peppers eaten by young iguanas this week but will not touch them , they are most welcome but yes a bear is no iguana and serious issues.

Btw did you have any issues due to the bears ?

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Thanks everyone for some handy hints. These birds are doves or pigeons, they all look the same to me. They don't migrate just hang around and make a nuisance. I might buy some artificial snakes and reflective tape, a neighbour said I could buy some tape that hums in the breeze and could scare the doves. I'll keep you posted.
 
Once people have attracted any kind of critters, you'll never get rid of them. We had that problem with cats in Eureka. for 6 years we never had a cat anywhere near our house. Then our new neighbors put food out and there were dozens of them around constantly. That eventually got them evicted due to putting food outside is a violation of your lease. But the cast came around looking for food every day anyway.

PHAs have rules and regs for everything. When California legalized pot, they sent out letters reminding everyone that the new law did not apply there. Anyone caught smoking or in possession of pot would be evicted. Yet the whole time we lived there you could smell pot half the time coming in the kitchen window, because a lot of our neighbors partied in the common back yard.
 

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