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[chrisgixer]

Lady opposite. Cat lover. Lives alone. All round good egg but can be nosey although not relevant to this.

Gets a knock on the door. Turns out to be a neighbour 2 doors away but in the next road, who's house backs on to the house next to hers. He's complaining to her because she feeds the birds in her garden. (Cat securely locked in the house, no cat flap, it rarely goes out anyway unless she checks the garden first)

Why is he complaining to her? Because the pigeons crap on the roof the their conservatree. His wife isn't happy "it's disgusting" she says. Especially when the family are round for tea. She closed the door on him. Thought no more of it.

Next thing she gets a letter from the council. Official complaint. She's told to stop feeding the birds. All food should be kept in sealed containers to counter rats. All droppings should be cleared away and the garden kept clean.

She has a bird table, with a single tubular mesh bird feeder hanging from it. She does not feed pigeons.

Somewhat annoyed, she rang the council, to be told they had a complaint and are duty bound to follow it up. After some "discussion" council confirmed they had no power to stop her feeding the birds. 

A factual post.

[BazaJT]

I have a bird table in front garden[Maureen used to love it],the "problem" if such there is,is that you can't pick and choose which type of birds feed from it,so I'm glad to hear that nothing can in reality be done and that bird table can stay!!

[BazaJT]

P.S. some of my neighbours also have  bird tables in their gardens and as far as I know no-one in the neighbourhood has yet complained about bird droppings.

[Viral_Jim]

This sort of thing really pi$$es me off, not the complaining necessarily, we all get on one another's pecks sooner or later and going round to talk to a neighbour is the right thing to do.

What gets my goat is councils and other bodies (read TV licence, PCSO's etc) trying to bluff you that you "must" do something when in reality all they can do is ask you and have no power to make you.

[Broomies Mate]

Without being able to visualise what is happening, I'm erring on the side of the complantive.  If she is enouraging birds (and he has said Pigeons) then she should be put in front of her family and shot.

Sky Rats are taking over.  We must arm ourselves against them (and Dog eating Gull's too!!!!)

[chrisgixer]

Tin foil hat for BM then. (I knew it)

[Bigron]

I have a (wood)pigeon problem too, but not a crapping one (well, ok, they DO crap, but that isn't it) - the real problem is the noise they make. I don't mind birdsong, mostly, but the wood pigeon "call" is the most annoying in the world and they do it for EVERY daylight hour, pissing me off to the ultimate!
If any Oofer has an effective way of killing these vermin without harming the other bird population I'd be delighted to hear about it. Putting poisoned birdseed on a bird table, with a notice "For wood pigeon only" probably wouldn't work?

Ron.

[biggriffin]

Without being able to visualise what is happening, I'm erring on the side of the complantive.  If she is enouraging birds (and he has said Pigeons) then she should be put in front of her family and shot.

Sky Rats are taking over.  We must arm ourselves against them (and Dog eating Gull's too!!!!)

I second the above motion.... Can I have a nice berretta over n under... Please,hofficer.

[Broomies Mate]

Tin foil hat for BM then. (I knew it)

Only to stop the bird 'lime' from hitting me on the bonce! 

[chrisgixer]

Without being able to visualise what is happening, I'm erring on the side of the complantive.  If she is enouraging birds (and he has said Pigeons) then she should be put in front of her family and shot.

Sky Rats are taking over.  We must arm ourselves against them (and Dog eating Gull's too!!!!)

I second the above motion.... Can I have a nice berretta over n under... Please,hofficer.

1 post says she's doesn't feed pigeons
2 why does the neighbours assume because she has a bird table she is feeding pigeons
3 even if she is feeding pigeons, why would any sane person presume the a house 3 gardens away is directing pigeons to then shit on their conservatree
4 why hasn't any person in the process wondered if it's even slightly possible that
A it might not be pigeons
B the culprit bird may have nothing to do with being fed in anyone's garden
C what Dna evidence (or otherwise ) is there that the food in said poop came from said garden.
D could it possibly be, by some wild stretch of the imagination, that some random bird took a dump without giving a shit who's conservatree it lands on.
E why haven't the council got anything better to do? Like, oh I don't know, telling people they have no right to complain about something so pathetic about a bird taking a dump.

[chrisgixer]

Seems it's just me

[chrisgixer]

Maybe, the thought occurs, she should complain to admin here....?

[CaptainZok]

Well if it was me I'd have Warbies on overtime baking enough bread to feed a flock of the flying rats and see if they couldn't whitewash the conservatree into oblivion. 

[Broomies Mate]

Fair play!  The best spelling of Conservatory I have ever seen! 

[biggriffin]

Or who gives a break. Just stop feeding the dam birds and the problem goes away.
 no food-=no birds simples.