Help! How to get rid of pidgeons on the roof

I hang old cd’s outside the bedroom windows, they shine and reflect the sun. Seems to deter them.

grannysue05 - you could:

nail a stuffed cat to the roof
have a loudspeaker set up, which you could screech into
get a bird of prey
fly a kite right near to the roof
hang out of the window with a hosepipe
live in a block of flats (top floor, obviously)
have the path all dug up, and replaced with a moat

Quizqueen.... I agree with your sentiment (although not the Noah's ark bit).

I love to see and hear the birds. I feed them, as I feed the squirrels and hedgehog that visit my garden too. Humans have destroyed so much habitat of birds and animals - so what if it takes a few minutes of cleaning the damned path of bird droppings?!

Having a model of a hawk or owl on the roof might work - www.pigeoncontrolresourcecentre.org/html/reviews/anti-perching-plastic-owls.html

One pigeon says to another, 'How dreadful our life is now. Those awful humans, they have concreted over so much of the countryside and we have nowhere to nest or even perch without hearing constant complaints and they have ruined the planet with their pollution and noise as well as the extinction of so many of our fellow creatures. One day will come an enormous flood just like the stories we have heard from our ancestors and we will be able to fly to the highest mountains and sit it out until the waters subside but let's make sure we peck a big hole in that boat this time!'

There is a product called Flock Off which is very good - www.flockoff.co.uk/our-products.html. It is easily fitted where the birds perch and makes it difficult for them to settle, but it's flexible and won't hurt them. It's not unsightly either. My son has fitted it on lots of buildings with great effect.

Buy a big pump-up long range water pistol!!
They cost around £15 and can shoot a water jet 20 metres (or 60 feet in old money).
I used to keep one by the backdoor at my old house to spray at the neighbour's many cats that came to mess in my garden. I have also used a water gun effectively on deterring the Starlings and other feathered friends from nesting under my roof eaves.

Just put some bird food out somewhere you don't mind them sitting - hanging off a tree branch over grass, or whatever. They'll go there instead and fertilise your grass so you don't need to worry about clover in the lawn.

Get a plastic kestrel on a stick!

I’ve just come downstairs from cleaning pigeon poop off a bedroom window and picked up my iPad to read Gransnet. There are two pigeons who sit for ages on our gutter just watching the world go by. But they sometimes sit the other way for some reason hence the dirty windows! We do get a lot in the garden and since I have bird feeders they help themselves. I don’t mind them really although they make a mess, all God’s creatures as my mother used to say.

We use the plastic spikes, it helps to sop cats coming in, pooing and not burying it and we bought them online.

The plastic spikes for walls and fences are available from catalogues such as ‘Easylife’ and also for gutters on line from various sources incl Amazon.

We have two house Martin nests directly over our porch roof. Every day I have to get very hot water and throw it out of the bathroom window to wash the poo off the windowsill and the roof. They come back every year to the same place. The neighbours must wonder what on earth I am doing but if I don’t, a small mountain of poo builds up on the porch roof. It’s easier to do the hot water routine. I do love the birds, just wish they would choose somewhere else to nest, even if it was only one season.Sorry I cannot help with you pigeon problem but hope you find an answer.

We have a very large tree in the shared parking area at the front of where we live there are a number of nests in there so plenty of bird poop is dropped on the cars,every day the windscreens have to be cleaned off and there is no way at all can I have the roof of my car off as the poop would be all over the inside of my car I forgot once and went out to a mess on my seats I have never forgotten again.
Things aren't helped by my next door neighbour throwing out bread to feed the birds every day,I have bird feeders at the bottom of my garden which keeps them away from the house.

2 weeks ago I removed a pigeon nest which had 3 eggs off part of my roof where there are window boxes.
I'd been quoted £300 by a company who were OK with doing it as it was only pigeons who are vermin.

Elaine1
I imagine they would be pigeon spikes and they are usually metal.

I had a slightly similar problem with pigeons and rang the RSPB who gave me the number of a 'professor' at some society or other.
After explaining the problem of yakking pigeons and their nesting habits she sent me (unbelievably) an email with an attachment granting me a 12 month licence to shoot them.

On the health centre roof we had to get plastic pokey up things attached to all the edges and roofline to stop the pigeons. Not long after it opened a few got inside the roof and died then we had bluebottles and flies - not so nice anywhere especially a health centre!
I don't know what they are called. Estates put them up and maintain them.

Obviously you can’t cover your entire roof with any anti-pigeon netting etc, but why not have some plastic spikes put up near the roof edges to stop the mess? At least it won’t make your pathways messy then.Any ‘odd job man’ would be able to install it.
We had a big problem with them here, but over the last ten years, red kites have done a sterling job of reducing their
numbers.

A hose pipe sprayed up their bottoms does discourage them for a while.

Well, actually, I laughed until I started coughing!!

‘Our’ pigeons eat up all the bits that fall from our bird feeders and don’t leave any for the rats.
We consider this outweighs their other annoying habits so put up with them.

They roost in the tree above where we have to park our car. Poop on the car - and lay the occasional egg. Ever tried getting baked on egg out of a rear windscreen wiper?! A hose pipe sprayed up their bottoms does discourage them for a while.

Move house. Madness!

Two pigeons have just had an almighty fisticuffs, rather a wingicuffs, in our garden. What a palaver!
One eventually gave in and flew away.
It was quite entertaining

BlueBell

Its a shame they sit over your pathway ???