Would one want to do the bird spikes around the 2nd floor roof as well as the porch roofs? Or would just the lower roofs be enough?
I'm imagining this would be regarded as an act of outright peafowl war by the neighbor, so I think we'll try this only after other approaches are exhausted, but...
How do the roof spikes work? Do you just install them on the perimeter of the roof, where the peafowl would land? So far I've seen them only fly onto the porch roofs from the ground, so that would hopefully be a doable amount.
Thanks for the tip about the fine line between providing a fun...
My kids are loud, too, so I'm totally on-board with loud peafowl noises, I just don't want them shredding up a roof... or frequently defecating on surfaces that I hope to let my freerange baby crawl around on. (In spite of a general freerange policy, my kids are usually confined to my property...
I agree that the best case scenario would be the neighbor making efforts to keep their birds on their property, and us just providing some deterrents for reinforcement in case the birds slip through their home defenses (which I understand is a thing that can happen in spite of best efforts).
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I am in the process of buying a house, and the inspection turned up several torn-off tiles... which, when I asked the current owners about it, turn out to be caused by the neighbor's peafowl. Indeed, I've already seen the peahens on the roof in the visits to the new house, and abundant evidence...