Pigeon Nest

Ninco! · 25 Sep 2023 at 20:36

A pigeon has decided to make a small nest in the guttering!

I accidentally disturbed the hen the other morning, just brief enough to see a couple of eggs! She flew off and promptly back again and plonked herself back on her brood. I leave undisturbed, she seems content and quite tame! It sits about one foot outside the window!

I don't really want to attract a load more, or mice etc.

Would you feed* or let nature be?

fatten them up? :eek:

drakulton · 25 Sep 2023 at 21:04

Well, as a complex pigeon nest can consist of a single twig, I think you may be okay, and not get over run by flying rats.

Ninco! · 25 Sep 2023 at 21:42

Thanks @drakulton, the nest is nothing, a twig or two (never knew this)!

I guess a little paranoid, just know neighbours who've had bird feeders (albeit close to their home) and mice have managed to invade first floors etc.

Hagar · 26 Sep 2023 at 09:29

We have a blossom tree on the front lawn and this summer had a nest. It is our first summer here so I we expect it happens each year. Now pigeons are territorial and have huge scraps with incomers so it was only one nest. Pigeons also do not make a lot of noise like crows and ravens anyway.
My major bugbear with them was crapping on the lawn. Otherwise they seem to have disappeared to winter quarters now, the only evidence of progeny was some broken eggshells on the ground.
A gutter does not seem ideal to me though.