That’s scary!

If you visited last year, you may remember we had a pigeon nesting in our barn, which actually wasn’t a big problem, just a bit flappy at times. Ideally though we would prefer Mr & Mrs Pigeon would live somewhere else this year so, to try and discourage them from the barn, I made a couple of pigeon scarers, which I needed Brian to hang from the beams. When I explained this to him he said “Hmm, you do realise their old nesting spot is about 30 ft up, and my ladder is only about 10 ft high”. This was clearly a problem to overcome, but without letting his doubt bother me too much I went and found some drawing pins, thinking to myself ‘I know he’ll find a way’. I gave him the pins, and said I’d go and make some tea. That usually helps.

It wasn’t long before he came in, smiling and looking very pleased with himself, “I’ve done one, come and look”.

he showed me how he’d done it by doing the second one. He fixed the drawing pin, attached to the pigeon scarer, to a piece of sticky tape on the end of a pole.

He then climbed his ladder and swung the pin, stuck to the end of the pole, into the beam.

Hoorah, one glittering pigeon scarer in place. Now we just need to see if it works.