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Pigeons!

  • 03-03-2013 02:26PM
    #1
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,536 ✭✭✭✭


    The last week or so there have been two, maybe more pigeons in the back garden hovering over and landing around the pond.

    We have a few goldfish in there, one of whom has beeen there 5 years plus... presume theyre after the fish?

    Anything to stop them bar putting a net over it?


Comments

  • #2
    Coll1e
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Coll1e


    You could try installing a replica of a heron or other tall bird to deter them. People with expensive Koi carb often use them. see link http://www.nomore-pests.co.uk/decoy-replica-heron~396


  • #3
    Alias G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭Alias G


    I could be wrong but I would be very surprised if pidgeons were dieting on goldfish. I think birds like Herons are the only thing you need to worry about there.


  • #4
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I'd be very surprised if pigeons were trying to eat fish. They're probably stopping at your pond for water and nothing more.


  • #5
    Rancid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭Rancid


    The pigeons are definitely not interested in your fish.

    As already stated, it's more likely that the water is what they're after. Is there a shallow part that they can land beside to drink or to bath in?


  • #6
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    I'd be more worried about cabbage plants than goldfish where pigeons are concerned.


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  • #7
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Would I get banned if I said ALL pigeons are b******s? :D


  • #8
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,536 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Just sitting having tea and one came back again. The dog had him gone before I got a chance to see what they were going to do.

    Fish are still there anyway.

    The level of the water is slightly high so maybe they're using it for a bath.


  • #9
    Northumbria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭Northumbria


    They're probably after the fish food or something around the pond.


  • #10
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,536 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Northumbria wrote: »
    They're probably after the fish food or something around the pond.

    We haven't fed then in years. Thought they were all dead and went to clean it out and a few appeared. Apparenlty they're living off the algae.

    Saw one again this morning but the dog had him shooed before he landed


  • #11
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,536 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Saw a few of then land, drink water and fly off again.

    Problem solved!


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  • #12
    decky1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 974 ✭✭✭decky1


    pigeons eating fish-what next? people eating horse.


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