Pigeons !!

[Solus]

You've missed your chance to hit it big, Bill...unless you can stop that trash pickup....

  Clients drop $180 for bird poop facials at NYC spa

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/02/clients-drop-180-for-bird-poop-facials-at-nyc-spa.html

and even more bad news

  ‘Cat Poop’ Facial Promises to Transform Human Skin?[/b]

http://www.opinionatedpussycat.com/2013/08/cat-poop-facial-promises-to-transform-human-skin.html

And I thought the saying "One man's trash is another man's treasure"  was tacky

[crusader rabbit]

BillT, I hope the combination works out for you.  My dad's place is about 20 miles south of you and has the same problem, except it's over his front entrance.  He's got a fairly typical (for Arizona) gabled entry way with beams on both sides of the roofed area over the double door entrance. 

Pigeons decided it would make a great place to nest and stay out of the sun.  Dad's 94 so he's not getting up on a ladder to deal with them.  BIL lives nearby, but he already took a header off his ladder trying to change the porch light at his place, so he can't deal with it.  That left me.

So, I started by putting up a mess of bird spikes to make it impossible to land on the beams.  But, what looks impossible to me just seemed a minor inconvenience to the damn pigeons.  So, I put up some more spikes.  Literally covered the entire beam surface with spikes.  The place was covered with bird sh!t within 2 days.

So, I got a snake--plastic, but formidable looking--and stationed it on the beam. 

Kept the damn pigeons away for about a week.

These dang things are not squab.  They live in the dessert and eat garbage.  They might be edible if someone was REALLY hungry, but I'd probably eat the neighbors before I tried eating those birds.

So, I put up an owl.  Seemed to work.

I came back to Florida feeling like I had made a difference at my Dad's place.  Few weeks went by and my smugness was destroyed by my sister's email.  "I jut cleaned about 10 pounds of pigeon poop from Dad's front porch."

Dad's moving to an adult living facility in the next couple of months, then I go back to Mesa to help sis get the old homestead ready for market.  Still have no idea what I'm going to do about the damn birds.  Let me know if you have continuing luck at your place.  I may have to come take a look at what you've done so I can adapt.

Crusader Rabbit

[PegLeg45]

Forget about the cats and pigeons. Use the liberals as a food source. You'll never run out.

Yeah, but they're so full of crap you'd have to prep 'em like chitlin's...... And by the time you got all the crap removed you wouldn't have enough left to eat to make it worth the effort. 

[Big Frank]

You've missed your chance to hit it big, Bill...unless you can stop that trash pickup....

  Clients drop $180 for bird poop facials at NYC spa

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/02/clients-drop-180-for-bird-poop-facials-at-nyc-spa.html

and even more bad news

  ‘Cat Poop’ Facial Promises to Transform Human Skin?[/b]

http://www.opinionatedpussycat.com/2013/08/cat-poop-facial-promises-to-transform-human-skin.html

And I thought the saying "One man's trash is another man's treasure"  was tacky

Some women swear by semen facials for tightening up the skin but egg whites are easier to find in quantity and are supposed to work as well. If I was going to get a facial I can guarantee it wouldn't be any kind of poop. Maybe some kind of clay but not poop.

[billt]

....Dad's 94 so he's not getting up on a ladder to deal with them.  BIL lives nearby, but he already took a header off his ladder trying to change the porch light at his place, so he can't deal with it......

That's the same problem I had. Ladder wise, not age wise. All I have is a 6' Aluminum step ladder. I really took a chance going up on the roof with it, because it wasn't tall enough. I had to stand on the top step, (which has stickers all over it warning you not to), then really stretch to pull myself up to the roof.

I had a hell of a time getting back down. My wife was holding the ladder steady, but it really was risky. And I pulled muscles in my back and neck doing it. Because I had to contort myself getting back down, sliding off backwards, ass first. Then trying to walk down the ladder facing forward and leaning backward the whole time. If I have to go up there again, I'll buy a better ladder. I'll be damned if I'm going to wind up in a wheelchair over Pigeons.

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[billt]

Well, they're back under the eve of the roof, in the front of my house near the peak. It's where I cleaned out all of the crap last week. I hung one of those prism owl cutouts right were they were roosting, and they managed to bite the hell out of it. It's still hanging, but it looks like a couple of 4 year olds had at it with a pair of scissors.

There isn't much of an overhang there, but it's enough where two of them can get under it, and out of the weather. I think I'll go to Home Depot and see if they have a set of spikes that will block out the entire eve. I'll have to get a better ladder as well. What a PITA!

[Solus]

Use a pellet gun and hang a dead pigeon where they hang out...

Not the most attractive and likely not really sanitary...but it might work

[billt]

[crusader rabbit]

I feel for you, brother.  Seems like you are having a similar experience to my own at my Dad's place.  Damn flying vermin are a determined lot.  I had a little luck with spreading mothballs around where they roost.  That drove them out until the mothballs evaporated.  Valley of the Sun is hard on mothballs.  I think that if you can break the roosting pattern long enough, they may not return.

The other possible solution is some nylon netting, like what you would use for a fish net.  Have to research where you might get it, but something like monofiliment nylon netting with 1" squares should prevent them from getting under that eve.  And, it's lightweight enough to be almost invisible from the ground so your neighbors won't accuse you of decreasing property values.

I wish you luck.

Crusader Rabbit

[tombogan03884]

Try chicken wire.