What would you do? Please help!

[Stella*]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for all of your kind words. Things have been getting a whole lot worse than the day I posted. After the confrontation, to prove my parents wrong, they’ve been putting out washing everyday. Despite how they’re in the house, they leave it out from ten in the morning, until seven/eight at night as though wanting birds to poo on it so they have their proof.

In answer to your questions, we have sparrows, blue tits, black birds and the odd pigeon here and there, but not very often anymore. We haven’t attracted the seagulls, they fly overhead, but never come in to have a bite to eat. (Somehow I have a feeling he’ll blame us for birds that fly over his house next!)

I just get the feeling that no matter what we do he’ll find a reason to argue. He even has his blinds facing our garden as though fixated on it. It’s not a nice feeling, but from reading all of your kind words, I know we can’t be doing anything wrong. I’ll see if my parents think it a good idea to change the feeding method, and see what happens then.

Thank you for listening to me, I was finding it hard to face this on my own.

[Jason Green]

Morning Stella

Maybe you could build a counter-case against them? You know, if it seems they're leaving their washing out for prolonged periods, log it - especially if your photographs display the time on them If they point their blinds at your garden, log it, say you're feeling watched, spied-on in your garden.

If things persist, maybe contact the Citizens Advice Bureau, or even your local RSPB office.

Finally stick with WAB - we'd like to hear about the birds that visit, help identify any you don't recognise, and of course support you with your neighbours from... !

Take care,

Jason

[tcvarlh]

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[dickybird]

so its tanks at dawn eh?

dickybird

[Jason Green]

Originally Posted by tcvarlh

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Originally Posted by dickybird

so its tanks at dawn eh?

dickybird

...sorry, you've lost me!

[BloomingMarvellous]

Originally Posted by Jason Green

Morning Stella

Maybe you could build a counter-case against them? You know, if it seems they're leaving their washing out for prolonged periods, log it - especially if your photographs display the time on them If they point their blinds at your garden, log it, say you're feeling watched, spied-on in your garden.

If things persist, maybe contact the Citizens Advice Bureau, or even your local RSPB office.

Finally stick with WAB - we'd like to hear about the birds that visit, help identify any you don't recognise, and of course support you with your neighbours from... !

Take care,

Jason

Is there really a Washing line Law that I've missed along the line, how utterly funny. Don't think I'd like anyone taking a photo of my smalls on my washing line, can you imagine being caught. Ha Ha Ha

We should have a Love Thy Neighbour Day

[Jason Green]

Originally Posted by BloomingMarvellous

Is there really a Washing line Law that I've missed along the line, how utterly funny. Don't think I'd like anyone taking a photo of my smalls on my washing line, can you imagine being caught. Ha Ha Ha

We should have a Love Thy Neighbour Day

No, I didn't mean it like that!

I was thinking more of just showing the duration of time they get left out for, to put any amount of bird stuff into perspective... if you leave it out for longer-than-normal periods, you'd get more... stuff, on them perhaps. That would not a sign of the number of birds in the locality, just that it was left out for a long time. I only meant to offer a suggestion to counter-claim their's.

OK, forget the photo idea... point taken; but suffice to say in my suggestion I just meant something distant to show a washing line, and not a close-up of things hung-up, obviously!

[dickybird]

youre lost jason because tcvarlh has deleted his extraordinary post where he suggested the initiator of this thread basically declare war on their neighbour.

too many sunday sherries i think!!

dickybird

[Jason Green]

Ah, right. He deleted it though, so must have realised later on what the thread is actually about. Thanks DB

[Stella*]

Hi everyone!

You really are all so kind, thank you for all of your support ^^

Jason Green, thank you for your advice, my parents are definitely looking into telling someone. Though for now they've started jotting down the times that they bang, so we have proof of how often this occurs. My parents have been feeling really victimised, and so wanted to write down notes of what next door have been doing.

It was a pretty peaceful afternoon, because he and his girlfriend were gone out, then the second they came home they banged twice, really violently (with a broom on his roof) and there wasn't even a bird in sight this time around. I looked out as he did it, and it was so still out there.

I have a feeling they're just doing it now for.. I have no idea, because they want to annoy us? Since that talk with them, maybe they're just proving they'll keep doing it. They didn't know I was looking out after all, and he's very different to any neighbour I've seen.

The lady has also just hung out her washing (5.30pm) ^^;; I guess when you're fixated on proving a point that you don't just hang your washing out once a week (though they did until my Dad pointed it out during their confrontation..) you hang out their washing everyday, despite how it's evening now.

I really hope they just get bored, but I have a feeling they'll keep on doing this because they seem to have no life, other than watching.

Again, thank you for reading and for speaking to me about it ^^