22-10-2015, 10:19 AM
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Re: What a Hoot !
Our workshop had a blanked off chimney breast with only a grille left for ventilation purpose. A pigeon appeared at the grille one day, so we unscrewed the grille and released the bird.This happened a few times and one of our engineers, who kept pigeons, said it was the same bird. His 'cure' on the last occasion was not to release the pigeon directly. Instead, he put it in an upside down metal waste paper bin and banged the bin hard with a screw driver handle for a few minutes. He reckoned the pigeon would then associate this trauma with settling on the chimney.
When that poor pigeon came out from under the waste bin, you could almost see the stars and planets revolving around its head and it couldn't wait to fly away.
Our colleague was right though, we never saw that pigeon again.
22-10-2015, 10:41 AM
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Re: What a Hoot !
Originally Posted by mart
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Our workshop had a blanked off chimney breast with only a grille left for ventilation purpose. A pigeon appeared at the grille one day, so we unscrewed the grille and released the bird.This happened a few times and one of our engineers, who kept pigeons, said it was the same bird. His 'cure' on the last occasion was not to release the pigeon directly. Instead, he put it in an upside down metal waste paper bin and banged the bin hard with a screw driver handle for a few minutes. He reckoned the pigeon would then associate this trauma with settling on the chimney.
When that poor pigeon came out from under the waste bin, you could almost see the stars and planets revolving around its head and it couldn't wait to fly away.
Our colleague was right though, we never saw that pigeon again.
I was traumatised just reading what you did to that poor bird but it also took me ages to stop laughing long enough to be able to reply
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