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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil G." data-source="post: 3657572" data-attributes="member: 132261">The whole point here is that there should'nt be a "least worst option"for these birds......they should be able to land in any tree they want to.For Christs sake,birds are birds and should'nt be put into different categories to suit peoples petty and idiotic preferences.I bet if it was a flock of waxwings,these idiots would be on the news stating how honoured they were that they were having their precious cars crapped on.Its our "engineering" that has caused most of our "conflicts" with nature in the first place so i think its time that we gave our wildlife a break rarther than push them into ever decreasing territories.What happens when these birds move on to another tree overhanging a car park.....they get moved on again and again and again until some really snooty residents get them destroyed.This is just the beginning,stories like this leads to others complaining and more and more nature starts to suffer......these spikes won't just stop pigeons.What happens when people start complaining about seagulls crapping on their cars as they fly over their housing estates........the next thing you know there will be mini barrage balloons going up everywhere to guide the gulls to "where we want them to go".We live in a coastal village and our car gets crapped on all the time by gulls,corvids and small birds......BIG DEAL......they were here first and we just accept it.</blockquote>

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