My Ragdoll Cat Adventures Part Three

07 October  2024 Blog Post  247 Battle with the Pigeons

 I have taken the squirrel feeders down. After a few months of usage it became way to messy with all the nuts on the floor everyday and the pigeons were too prolific! At first there were only a few using it but eventually all the pigeons in the local vicinity were feeding in my garden. It was getting embarrassing with all these pigeons sat on my roof and my garage roof waiting for me like that Alfred Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds’! They are greedy birds as well. So now I have put up homemade feeders which are smaller and less accessible to the pigeons and I only put the shell nuts in there now which they can’t eat. Sammy squirrel is finally getting his nuts in peace now without fighting off the pigeons. It has been a battle though! It took me a week to perfect the feeders so they were less attractive to the pigeons. The boys have been watching me bemused as I kept going out in the garden and re-tying/moving the feeders on the fence as a pigeon had sat on it and knocked all the nuts out et cetera. However, after a few days of not putting out any smaller peanuts for them I relented and have started chucking nuts on the lawn for them in the morning and afternoon. At least then they have to forage a bit more for them. The boys think it’s great as I chuck some nuts on the patio so the pigeons have to come right up the door and the boys love watching them. I am still getting a lot of pigeons sat on my roof but at least they are not there all day like they used to be. Boyfriend says they are my pets now (I even have names for some of them!) I won’t ever get rid of them now!