{"id":847,"date":"2014-04-25T17:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T17:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/?p=847"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:29:10","slug":"pigeon-damage-to-fruit-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/pigeon-damage-to-fruit-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon Damage to Fruit Tree&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is the first time that I can remember that we have had pigeon damage to the new shoots of our fruit trees. Some of the branches have also snapped, under the weight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have seen the pests, in our back garden sitting on the high branches of next doors plum tree pecking away. They have also been noticed in the canopy of a red beech tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage2_2014-04-17-19.15.56.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage2_2014-04-17-19.15.56-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"pigeon_damage2_2014-04-17 19.15.56\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage2_2014-04-17-19.15.56-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage2_2014-04-17-19.15.56-600x741.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage2_2014-04-17-19.15.56.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage1_2014-04-21-17.33.28.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage1_2014-04-21-17.33.28-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"pigeon_damage1_2014-04-21 17.33.28\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage1_2014-04-21-17.33.28-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage1_2014-04-21-17.33.28-600x690.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage1_2014-04-21-17.33.28.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>They even sit on the branch tops, and with their heavy weight make the thin branches snap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26 08.48.41\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41-600x598.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41-1024x1021.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gb-online.co.uk\/gb-wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pigeon_damage3_2014-04-26-08.48.41.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first time that I can remember that we have had pigeon damage to the new shoots of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,328,45,401],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-fruit","tag-pigeon","tag-plum","tag-tree-beech","comments-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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