Best pigeon scaring devices?

[Rabbit Wolverine]

After finished drilling the spring barley, we have now been invaded by thousnads of pigeons, the most i've ever seen on one field!

So been hanging the rope bangers in the hedge and they seem to be working ...for the moment,

Don't want to go down the gas gun route as it WILL get nicked,

what are the Kites and other devices like?

 

[Richard Budd]

After finished drilling the spring barley, we have now been invaded by thousnads of pigeons, the most i've ever seen on one field!

So been stilling the rope bangers in the hedge and they seem to be working ...for the moment,

Don't want to go down the gas gun route as it WILL get nicked,

what are the Kites and other devices like?

You need a couple of willing/keen pigeon shooters, they are normally quite keen to come and shoot on new drilling having chased the grey flying rats over thousands of acres of rape over the winter...well my local shooters do anyway....trouble is to get them to go and chase the pigeons off the rape as it starts to extend away.

 

[mushnt grummmble]

grab those 2 gypsy kids to go look for your wedding ring

 

[Rabbit Wolverine]

We already have a guy who shoots it quite often, he says he shoots hundreds, but doesn't make a dent into the population

 

[Derick]

This year has been a big problem with pigeons, I sell a range of deterrents, but have seen a big rise in the kites this year, i think the main reason for them being popular is because they are nice and cheap and are easy to store for the next year, if you drop me your email address I'll pop some prices and images of the kites if its any help?

 

[Robigus]

Best way is someone with a quad bike and a gun - to scare them, not to sit in a hedge and quietly decoy them in.

We use a mixture of kites, inflatable scarecrows and bangers.
The most important thing is to keep changing them about, pigeons will soon get used to any thing if it is left in the same place for weeks on end.

Having said that it is more a case of do what I say and not what I do because our rape is bloody awful.

 

[shakerator]

i doubt they will threaten a stand of spring barley

 

[Banana Bar]

Best way is someone with a quad bike and a gun - to scare them, not to sit in a hedge and quietly decoy them in.

We use a mixture of kites, inflatable scarecrows and bangers.
The most important thing is to keep changing them about, pigeons will soon get used to any thing if it is left in the same place for weeks on end.

Having said that it is more a case of do what I say and not what I do because our rape is bloody awful.

That could of been written by me

BB

 

[RolyD8K]

barley thats covered is safe pidgeons only pick up whats littered on top
but wont peck for it,decoying will draw them to your farm,when shooter
stops comeing the pidgeons wont they will still come and dont forget where
theres a good feed,we use gas guns where they wont get stolen kites near
houses & roads and home made scarecrows dotted about,and be prepared
to move em about as pidgeons concentrate on certain areas

 

[einstein]

I wouldnt worry about them,they are only eating what you have left on top-ive never known them to turn the soil over and dig up what you have planted.Thats the speciality of crows.

 

[pigeonscarer]

what's the best bird scaring device?

 

[CORK]

We avoid banger getting stolen by dropping a loader bucket over it. You would need to be a human mole to get at it. Muffles the bang a bit but not much.

 

[nick...]

Bangers are best alomg with willing shooters.kits last about 5 minutes.frame on kite often breaks or the get stolen and have had poles snap this year.those things that go round are rubbish too
Nick...

 

[pear]

I got a 'Boom tube' from Pan Anglia. You put a rope banger in it and they are very loud. Spaldings do a similar thing. Having said that it's a piece of metal tube so wouldn't take much to make one up.

 

[Robigus]

what's the best bird scaring device?

Young lad with a gun and a pocket full of cartridges.

Second to that a little of everything being changed around each week.

What ever you use they will soon get used to so keep changing.

 

[ajd132]

Rope bangers, put them where you want but abit labour intensive if you have large acerages.
Our rape is huge at the moment so I wouldn't mind abit of grazing!

 

[Surgery]

They won't do any damage to drilling

 

[mikep]

The best we have found is a shop manakin. Dressed up with hat and 'gun'. Even kept blackies off for a while. Pigeons won't even fly over the field also we use kite and bangers. We usually only keep the bangers either side of the day to stop breakfast and roost feed.

 

[Captain Mainwaring]

Kites are o.k but need to be moved or changed every few days, even then they gradually diminish in effectiveness.

Bangers work well, I cut the top off a 200 litre drum, thread a wire across the opening and hang the rope from that which amplifies the bang quite nicely.

Not that effective but nothing beats the satisfaction of a bit of wholesale slaughter over decoys when to comes pigeons though.

 

[sirclip]

Tried kites. You might as well put up a board in pigeon language saying food available here. Better results with a bit of plastic flapping about on a stick, and a lot cheaper!