PIGEON PROBLEM IN WELSHPOOL FABRICATION WORKSHOP – these few pigeons were among forty-odd removed from a large, high-roof, gantry crane fabrication workshop in Welshpool. While the workshop had always had a handful of pigeons, more recently their numbers had increased significantly. To the point where each morning large fabricated pieces- freshly undercoated the day before- would have to be scrubbed clean before topcoats could be applied. The workshop had also started wrapping prepared work in large plastic sheets to keep the pigeon droppings off during the night.
A time was arranged one midweek evening at 7:30 pm to remove the pigeons. With the workshop lights off, the pigeons could be seen clearly in the rafters, settled in for the night, through the night vision telescopic sight. When the first pigeons started falling to the floor, all the rest simply sat still, perhaps thinking they remained safe and protected in the dark of the workshop? Around fifty minutes later there were no more pigeons sitting in the rafters.