Pigeons keep laying eggs on my balcony. They make a lot of mess. The balcony is next to my kitchen, I fear for our health with all the filth on the balcony. Not wanting to destroy the eggs, I waited for about two months and today I wanted to finally clean up our balcony. Well, I just found two new eggs in that nest!
I can’t wait another two months before finally cleaning up my balcony! Another two months of that terrible filth. It will be autumn then. I’m between jobs now. If I have a new job by then, it will be difficult to even find the time to clean that mess up. What would you do?
Is it such a sin to throw that nest away and just clean up everything? Would it really be that terrible if I’d get rid of these annoying pigeons nests which bring so much bird poop, feathers and all kinds of other mess on my balcony, next to my kitchen? Some advice please, serious advice that is.
(and why all this hesitation? when I have a spider in my home, I immediately use my hoover to get rid of it, yes hoover, in case the spider might jump or crawl to some escape or even worse, on me, yet I keep hesitating when it’s a pigeon)
(administrator, can my spelling mistake in the title be adjusted please?)
Thread can be closed. I found my answers. For anyone ever encountering the same problem; during the first few days there is no real 'life' in the eggs so you can throw them away if you don't want all that mess around your home.
Thread can be closed. I found my answers. For anyone ever encountering the same problem; during the first few days there is no real 'life' in the eggs so you can throw them away if you don't want all that mess around your home.
You dont even have to throw them away. You just have to touch them. Once handled by humans, pigeons wont sit on it anymore, and will abandon the eggs, and perhaps even the nest....because they dont consider the place safe any more.
People, I made it clear that the mess of so much bird poop and feathes all over the balcony, which attracts extra flies and other germs, is the reason I wanted them gone and many other people have the same reason. This isn't only in the Netherlands, it's in every other country.
There are many people in the Netherlands who like pigeons, I don't have anything against them either. I let these pigeons hatch their former eggs and waited many more weeks until their young could fly and didn't need the nest anymore before cleaning up. Would I have done that if I hated them? Years ago, in my first year in this home, we had a pigeon nest on my other balcony. They made even more horrible mess there. Yet I waited months before cleaning up there as well.
I even fed pigeons when I went out to feed the ducks. Pigeons always came hoping for pieces of bread, which I always gave them as well. Now we have laws stating we shouldn't feed birds. So I stopped doing that some weeks ago, I'd rather not pay fines for feeding ducks and pigeons. I don't have that much money . . .
Anyway, I hope it's clear now that the entire Netherlands is not a pigeon hating country and that even if some want them gone from our balcony, it's because we would like to be able to use our balcony which is impossible when bird poop and bird feathers along with the flies and germs they attract are all over it. :)
