Okay, here's a truly bizzarre topic...pigeons!  I'm hoping that maybe some of you may have suggestions or even success stories with getting rid of pigeons!  Here at my place of business I am situated in town between two other buildings, we're not connected ,so there is a small walkway on either side of us.  One side is completely unaffected, whereas the other is absolutely plagued with hundreds of pigeons that are making a terrible mess, leaving their disease-ridden droppings and feathers everywhere.  Fortunately this mess cannot be seen from the front of my shop, thanks to a closed alley entry-way, but my side walk way is absolutely horrid and unusable.  To try to control the mess and the smell I have been trying to wash it away with a bleach/soap solution, but I do not have a hose hook-up here, so it's done bucket by bucket.  I've tried fake owls and snakes as suggested by some people around here, they eventually just got used to them.  I don't have the money to try expensive sound and light tactics like I've read about on different sites, and I don't have the heart to poison or kill them.  I've gone as far as having pictures and a story written up for the local paper, which in turn attracted the attention of two local news stations that came and did a story on it.  Everyone was in an up-roar (towards the town borough, that is) for a while, and action was supposed to have been taken.  Well, it all has since died down and nothing has been done.  I'm still working on that end, but until something can be done to permanently remove them by the town, is there any way to repel them from my property?

ANY suggestions would be greatly, greatly appreciated...honestly!

Oh, thank you ollave, you are so sweet for wanting to help!  As a said, at this point any and every suggestion is worth a million bucks to me, I'm so desparate to get rid of them!  I'm going to check that foil out now, I never heard of it before, but it makes sense because I think bright light seems to scare them.  Thanks!  

ETA:  I just looked at the site, and this stuff seems like a real possibility, and affordable too.  I really might give this a whirl, thanks again!

Another good idea!  I've read about hanging tin pie plates out to bang around, so this is similar to that.  I've also read about spike strips to place in the places they like to perch, it prevents them from landing.  The strips are expensive to buy, but can probably be made.  Thanks for the suggestion...and the empathy!

I've heard about the ol' alka selter trick, makes their stomachs explode, I guess.  Nope, don't have the heart to do it.  If I could only make them stop pooping, or put diapers on them....

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Are you making fun of my decorating abilities?    I make Christmas tree ornaments from CD's.  I tat a snowflake over the CD - they are very pretty hanginon on the tree or in a window.  I have to have things in my windows to keep the birds from trying to fly through my house! 

We "wallpapered" one of our cubicles with AOL CD's.  There were no duplicates!

I like mobiles made from CD's especially when you use the small ones along with the standard size ones.

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I believe that you should kill an animal only if you want to eat it.


MAGGIE: I heard about the CDs with the fishing line, and some folks laid out the green outdoor type carpet and the pigeons didn't come back (until the winter hit and it was covered in snow) And just putting up fishing line in about 10 inch distance (like cloth lines)
keeps them away - supposedly!

You can buy CD's cheap.  Just find a terrible brand. (I think Digital Quality is absolutely awful, but I don't know anymore)

I don't have any suggestions for you, unfortunately.  You could always hire a little kid with a big stick and have him/her scare them away on a regular basis.