Does anyone know what scares pigeons?

Question

Our balcony seems to be the home of pigeons that fly by. Its starting to get really gross there with poop all over. Does anyone know what we can put out there that scares pigeons so they wont go in our balcony? I know its a silly question, but worth a try.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Put a fake owl out there,Northeren tool .com has one with a motion sensor and it's eyes light up and it hoo's

Answer 2

you can put up plastic hawks or you can get stickers to put on your window that looks like a hawk or falcon silhouette. We don't have many pigeons in our garden as we have four gos hawks sat out there, that works a treat.

Answer 3

Try wind chimes. My dad used to cut aluminum cans and make something for the wind to blow. The noise and the movement keeps them away as long as there is wind. Otherwise let the small children chase them.

Answer 4

number one predator of pigeons are falcons pigeons get smart to the fake owl, they know they hunt at nite i guess, dont know if they make a fake falcon but if i was gonna try a fake bird it would be a falcon.

Answer 5

http://environnement.ecoles.free.fr/Wav/autour-des-palombes.WMA

record this with a dictaphone or something and play it on your balcony. It's the singing of a bird that scares pigeons. (in french the bird is called "autour-des-palombes")

Answer 6

Make some old CD's into mobiles and hang them on your balcony.

Answer 7

12 bore shot gun
serious noise and movement if you can work out a way to do this at random this should work

Answer 8

Hawks & owls do a number on them, but I am not sure where you could hire them!

Answer 9

not silly really. i use my dogs to chase them (only because i know they're not likely to ctach them). but thats just a temporary fix. i don't know if scattering moth balls would help.