Bird C*rap

[Passport1]

Well it is finally spring here in ENC and the mocking birds are back. My vehicles have a mystical attraction to them and they leave their markings liberally all over the paint. One especially enthusiastic bird dove on me and dropped a torpedo right on my hat. How to keep them away?

Affirmation to Gary Larson;

Is this really how birds see us?

 

[skyactiv]

I once worked at a Honda dealer as a young mechanic. They had a few decoy hawks on top of light poles. I don't know if it helped or not.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Happens to my vehicles all the time. Already happened some this year.

 

[Dave9]

Heh, you think that's bad... try living between two ponds, where there are dozens of geese that fly back and forth between them a few times a day. I keep a spray bottle of windshield washer fluid handy and a hose reel nearby, temperature permitting. They tend to avoid me though, maybe they know they better not directly piss me off because sometimes instead of flying, they walk through my property to get from one pond to the other, especially with chicks in late spring.

 

[aquariuscsm]

I once worked at a Honda dealer as a young mechanic. They had a few decoy hawks on top of light poles. I don't know if it helped or not.

Nope,they don't work. Neither do those loud air cannons.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Well it is finally spring here in ENC and the mocking birds are back. My vehicles have a mystical attraction to them and they leave their markings liberally all over the paint. One especially enthusiastic bird dove on me and dropped a torpedo right on my hat. How to keep them away?

Affirmation to Gary Larson;

Is this really how birds see us?
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When I lived in Tampa, FL. we had A LOT of seagulls around.
I went to WM one day and as I opened my door to get out of my truck a seagull crapped onto the interior part of my window/door! It went down into the inside of my door. I wiped off the window and door sill. When I returned home I had to remove my interior door skin to clean the crap that slithered down into my door.
I HATE SEAGULLS!

 

[tbm5690]

Nope,they don't work. Neither do those loud air cannons.

The air cannons that I'm familiar with are chest-thumping and pretty loud...seem to work well.

 

[vavavroom]

 

[Portobelly]

The birds seem to choose shiny cars at random.

I sometimes wonder the diet of these birds... Purple and yellow the droppings are, sometimes. Don't let that dry or it will be harder to take off...

I genuinely feel bad for some of the cars I've seen pooped on by birds. Some are.. really, really bad.