get the pigeons out of my attic

The sad part is the pigeons are entering through the same hole I plugged up last year. Why do pigeons get so insistent about returning to the same roost. Why not move on? Damn you pigeons!

It’s been one week and the pigeons have not returned. The hole they were accessing has been closed up with chicken wire. The attic is still full of pigeon shit and feathers, but at least they’re gone. It was driving me completely nuts.

A big clean-up job awaits.

I had the pigeon person over yesterday—he installed a one-way door under the eaves where the pigeons are entering the attic (did I mention I have a mild fear of ladders?). The next time these 4 pigeons go out for food they won’t be able to get back in. After that, we’ll seal up all the holes around the perimeter of the roof and get to cleaning out the pigeon mess. That will involve removing all the insulation and gasing the place with some sort of bio-enzyme that will neutralize the pigeon poo and pee. Then I can actually insulate the house.

I tried to talk the pigeon guy into mounting a pot of boiling water beneath the one-way door so as to make fresh pigeon soup as the birds exited the attic. No luck.

I knew there was a hole under my eaves—I’d seen a pigeon poking through a couple weeks ago. And now that I think back there was the cooing of pigeons a few months back but I assumed it was coming from on top of the roof where a few pigeons hung out this summer. I was probably playing a little mental trick with myself by not visiting the attic until this past weekend and hoping the problem would go away.

Pigeons are fracking evil! There are 4 living in my attic. There’s more pigeon shit than I care to talk about. When I got up on the beams last night with a flashlight and chicken wire I figured I just chase them out and cover the hole. But these pigeons are stupid (couldn’t find their way out of the whole they enter) or were intentionally ignoring me. Now I’ve got a pigeon guy coming over tonight and he’s going to install a one-way door so they exit and can’t get back in. Next we’ll patch the hole—then I’ve got to get all the pigeon shit cleaned up. I think I’m going to yank all the insulation and start from square one. What a mess!