How to Get Pigeons out of Your Attic
For many years, you've considered yourself a pacifist, opting to avoid conflict and embracing the policy of "live and let live." However, it would seem that the pigeons roosting in your attic are bent on making you abandon your peaceful ways.
It's been days and their constant shooting and noise keep you up at night. Not to mention the smell; apparently, the anywhere and everywhere is a good place to go to do their "business" for these birds. You've put up with them long enough. They need to go.
Preparations
Before you march up into the attic and reclaim your property from these winged nuisances, you need to make a few preparations. First off, you need to make sure you don't approach the attic without wearing the right attire: your face needs to be covered with a face mask, you should be wearing gloves, and you should try and cover as much of your body as you can, to prevent contracting diseases from the pigeons or their festering mess. You should also have all the tools you need to finish the job ready at hand so that when you leave the attic at the end of the day, there remains not a single chance for those pesky pigeons to return.
Removal
You could poison the birds, but that would only mean a larger mess for you to clean up later. Instead, your best option is to try and "convince" them to leave. You could do this by simply shooing them away, and then patching up the openings they escape from (the same ones they used to invade your space in the first place), so they can't return when you leave. Or you could block off all exits save a few and fit them with one-way exclusion funnels, through which the pigeons can only exit your attic and can't return. There's also a high chance there'll be a nest in your attic, and if there are eggs or baby pigeons inside it, the most humane option would be to hand them over to wildlife experts.
Cleanup
As mentioned above, pigeons make a gigantic mess wherever they live, and when you've driven them out, you still have to clean up their feathers, nests, and most of all their droppings, that seem to decorate every surface in your attic. Cleaning up all of this is very important otherwise you could be putting yourself and your family at great risk of catching some nasty diseases. Just scrub away at the white stains with soap and mop with disinfectant, and you're good to go.
Precautions
After you've gone through all this trouble to make your attic pigeon-free, you probably wouldn't want to repeat the same process after a few weeks, now would you? That's why it's imperative you make sure there are absolutely no openings through which the pigeons can re-enter your attic. Either seal them up yourselves or call for a professional's help to do so; its well worth the expense to keep those pesky birds out.
Also read our other bird tip:
Is It Safe To Use A Pigeon Trap?