Clarice's Blog

Hi Clarice a lot of cheaper bird seeds consist of corn which wood pigeons love-we too get wood pigeons - we use the corn base on the ground which they eat and place the select wild bird seed on our table.You sure pigeons eating fruit?Does your bird table have a roof? Pigeons too fat to get on ours.

Clarice if your table has a roof put some string around the middle of it then only the little birds can get into it I put fruit out for the blackbirds and the pigeons here dont seem to like it I live right next to a wood and we get lots of them in the garden It is funny watching them trying to work out how to get into eat the seeds ,they give up in the end and go somewhere else

We have the same problem here. I tried string and the crafty things just perched on it and it slid down under their weight enough for them to poke their surprisingly long necks through to clear the table before the little birds got a chance! So now we have fastened plastic mesh round it (on one side as ours is against a post) and the pigeons have tried every which way to get the food but can't! I can't put corn on the ground as BB suggested as Henry would eat it!

we have exactly the same problem , the only idea we have come up with is pigeon pie ,!!
We have Doves that are so tame they they swoop at you and " screech " when they want some seed ,one in particular that I call Cheeky .We have also had a male pheasant called Charlie plus his 2 ladys living here for the last 4 yrs , the ladys disappear at nesting time but have just come back looking very thin , they all come at the same time each day for a handfull of sunflower seeds .