Or, I’m gonna tar those feathers! When we were having all the little odds & ends of work done on the house, one of the things I had the contractor do is put pigeon spikes on top of our bedroom A/C. They seemed spaced out very nicely & I was confident that we had effectively put an end to hearing the click, click, click of claws against metal as the walked on the air conditioner.
I was smug about this. I looked across to my neighbor’s A/C where they had a nice little nest going there. “Ha! I won’t have to worry about that!” Or so I thought. There is a little space between some of the spikes. It’s small; maybe 3″. Apparently that’s all the little pest needed.
Today I spent a lot of time walking up and down the stairs, going into my bedroom to chase it off the A/C. I think the stupid bird finally got the message because it hasn’t returned yet since the last chase-down, over an hour ago. What I would like is a water gun type thing. Something that shoots tar out. That’d fix it.
Lacking that, I guess it’s time to order more spikes and hire someone to get up on a really tall ladder and close out that space.
I had two places this spring that I had to keep tearing down nests as they built them to keep from having birds everywhere.
Ha! We hung a bird feeder that our realtor gave Linus today. Send the pigeon down here. Not really fond of pigeons (nor what they leave behind), but I’ll take one for Linus. Poor child has stalked the bird feeder all afternoon to no avail.
Instead of pigeon spikes they should be called pigeon strips….we should invent those. If people order chicken fingers they should buy pigeon strips…(never mind just thinking to myself)