she is quite a pigeon killer and eater… everything but the wings, beak and skull…
I’m sure it will go the way of Australia (all cats to be locked up / inside / within a caged area)… just give it time…
we lock her in at night or she will go mousing too… but more to play with… but I don’t think the mice know that.
bit cold and wet of late so she is just happy to sleep on the bed, put the underfloor heating on in the conservatory the other day and she was camped out in there on a mat just staring out at her territory and very happy.
really funny when a pigeon lands on the conservatory roof as she lets out this sort of low sound grumble… like… “come down here and waggle your arse at me down here or on the lawn and see what happens!”
if the seagull was that fussed I’m sure your drone will probably come off worst… appreciate depends on the drone but most sub 250g won’t fair well with a peed off seagull with a vengeful streak…
Did you read all of the replies? There are a few that say the same things as in your thread.
But in any case, the circumstances are a little different.
To make it simple, you are allowed to scare them away, and even shoot them (dependant on species), when they are posing a problem. One gull/pigeon isn’t really a problem, is it? But a mass of gulls divebombing us, or a flock of 200 pigeons eating your crops or worse, roosting and shitting in your building is a different story. A lone gull on a playing field? I don’t care too much that it happened, but someone else watching may have taken offence and reported you. And with the video evidence you supplied it might have got you a talking to from the local wildlife officer/police. Especially if that particular type of gull is protected outwith the general rules. Some people that made comments might just have been trying to save you from getting into bother? I know that was my intention
Unfortunately shooting them is out of the question, I’m pretty sure the neighbours wouldn’t like dead pigeons falling from their roofs. I may venture my drone towards them a little if I get really cheesed off, but first I’ll try changing the sort of food we leave out for the birds.
Whilst we can’t stop them from landing, for the last 12 months both my wife and I have been shouting and waving arms at them to scare them off. This has made them a little on the timid side. Nowadays we don’t even have to open a door to get them to bugger off, a simply flicking of the door handle is enough to get their wings flapping.
We do have some new kids on the block with a few crows also paying regular visits and along with the magpies. When any of those are around the pigeons do tend to stay away. It’s almost like a soap opera in the garden during the winter!!
I think I may be spending too much time looking out of the window!!
As an update to my pigeon issue, I did actually buy the RC eagle from Amazon for the grand price of £17.50 (bargain). Flown it for the first time yesterday in a local park, and not the easiest thing to fly ever. Only 2 controls, (more or less power and left & right). Putting it in the air is easy, but getting it down is really tricky to land in one specific point, as it tends to glide, a lot!. I need more practise before launching it in my garden, as I need to be able to land it in quite a tight area.
For now we’ll just have to change the way we feed the birds by using feeders that only the smaller birds can eat from.
