Pigeon Nuisance

[marion29]

I live on the second floor of a converted Victorian house in Dover,Kent and been driven mad by 2 pigeon who keep trying to nest on my side bedroom window. The noise they make in the early hours of the morning is awful and the droppings and mess is horrible to wake up to. My husband has shooed them away, got rid of their nesting twigs, but they just move away watching him and return later! I never realised how stupid they were! The snag is, it's difficult to get at as the window doesn't open on that side so you have to reach out through the main central window and do it that way. Any simple suggestions to get rid of these creatures? 

[FP]

Is there any way you can somehow attach some rolled barbed wire to the window sill from end to end.  I know it will look grim, but you can take it down at the end of the summer.  The pigeons will probably then go and find somewhere else to nest.

[smudge]

Carpet gripper perhaps?

[Loosehead]

Look at major buildings in any city, they have hedghog spines all over any area where pigeons could land to stop them landing. I don't know where you buy them but that's the answer. 

[burnhal]

try a large cut out hawk silhouette stuck to the window

[Goofy]

barbed wire/hedgehog thing or some such would be better. Hawk cut outs never worked with me.
RSPB might be able to source the hedgehog spines?

[TommyC]

I would never normally suggest it as I am the world's foremost animal lover, but in extreme circumstances... Go to a gunshop, buy a cheap airgun, wait for them in the garden and make SURE you hit the head, not the body..!! It's quick  simple and humane, and the world won't miss two pigeons..!!