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Bird Poo

Paul HaslamPaul Haslam Posts: 2
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The local avian population had a meeting and decided that my lawn makes an ideal toilet. Apart from buying a rifle and sniping at them from the shed - Does anyone know a way to change their minds? PLEASE!!!

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  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    Be grateful it's free fertiliser and perfect for lawns, you won't need to feed it this year.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143

    What sort of birds? 

    Is there an overhanging tree that they're perching on to do their business?


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Paul HaslamPaul Haslam Posts: 2

    Hi Dovefromabove and thanks for taking the time to reply.

     I don't know because I've never actually seen them in the act - or I would be aiming and firing. There's a couple of magpies and collared doves.

    Hi Dave Morgan and thanks for taking the time to reply

    Whatever they are, they s**t in the same spot every time and the pile now looks like a grey and white cow pat so it's killing the grass in one spot and not "fertilising" the rest!

  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123
    Something is roosting. Is it just general poo or have you had a good look at it. The only bird which roosts in the same spot consistently is an owl. A flock would spread when roosting so you wouldn't have a pile. Owls leave pellets rather than poo they regurgitate their waste. You don't live in west London by chance do you?
  • TootsietimTootsietim Posts: 178

    Similar problem at work with pigeons and doves roosting and leaving large piles of muck. Often one bird of a pair will sit away from the nest in a favourite spot while it's mate is on the nest.

     In the garden a blackbird often roosts in the same spot and messes on the compost heap. ( yay).

    I can only suggest you remove any perch they are using, or make it unusable.

    I'm afraid that the wildlife and countryside act makes the shooting of birds in your garden strictly off limits.

  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Even magpies?

    My money's on a pigeon.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    Last year a pair of collared doves made quite a pile of poop by sitting together 'billing and cooing' on a branch overhanging part of our garden. That's my guess as to the culprit, but if you're going to look up ..... Beware!!!

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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