Duh, I just deleted my own comment! I was saying I could empathize We have flying rats or pigeons as some call them. Because my wackadoodle neighbor insists on feeding them all year long. They don’t mess his yard because he doesn’t have a deck or anything. Nope I have to daily clean poop off the deck. I asked him not to last year but hes a horse’s butt!

Yes my neighbours aren't happy when the seagulls have babies, because the parents and their gang dive bomb them when they're in their garden. Although it's not my fault, I don't ask the gulls to nest on my roof, I can't do anything about it, but I still feel guilty about the mess the gulls make on Anne's garden furniture. For some strange reason, seagulls are protected birds and no-one can interfere with them. Meanwhile the roof of my porch is just covered with the chicks stuff. I'll just have to wait until they fly away, before I get the roof cleaned.

Nice! Could you look at doing something to that roof to deter them next year?
I confess, I wouldn't like it, filthy creatures.

Gracie, your neighbour is an idiot!
I used to live next door to an old lady who would throw her leftover dinner onto the garden 'for the birds' then she complained to the council that our pond attracted rats! Seriously! I put the council straight when they called around lol.

Not really Fran, it would be awful if they fell off the roof onto something that could hurt them. It seems to be a rite of passage for them to fall off the main roof and onto my porch roof, whereby they can learn to flap their wings and practice taking off, and also be a little independent. Then when they're ready, they jump off the roof and walk around the driveway, and they disappear with their parents. This has happened every year for as long as I can remember. Poor you - living next door to someone who constantly complains yet do something similar! Mind you, Anne and Peter do have loads of bird feeders dotted around their garden!!!!!

Yep. Total idiot. I really don't like him. And as you said, we could wind up with rats. They like birdseed too. Part of why we only feed the birds in winter when they need it. Now they should be eating bugs!