freakin' birds!
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freakin' birds!
I've been driving for over 40 years, and I've never had a problem like this! It seems that a teeny little bird, no more than 3 inches tall, has fallen in love with it's reflection in the passenger side mirror of my '04 F150 4X4!
I came home one day, and the mirror housing was just COVERED with bird****! Not one or two big splots, absolutely covered! It was truly disgusting! I washed it off & went in the house. My wife called me from the kitchen saying there was a bird on my truck. I went out & chased it away, but every time I go back in the house, the freakin bird comes back & ****s on the same mirror!!
I've tried everything from covering the mirror with a towel (It somehow got it off & went back to ****ting on the housing) to getting one of those fake owls (Scared the beegeesus out of the blue jays, but not the little bird), but nothing seems to work.
On the one hand, watching a 3 inch bird try to hump a full sized pick-up is really kinda hilarious, but on the other had, the results are truly disgusting.
Has anybody else had this problem, and if so, how did you resolve it? Right now I have resorted to tying plastic bags over the mirrors!!
I came home one day, and the mirror housing was just COVERED with bird****! Not one or two big splots, absolutely covered! It was truly disgusting! I washed it off & went in the house. My wife called me from the kitchen saying there was a bird on my truck. I went out & chased it away, but every time I go back in the house, the freakin bird comes back & ****s on the same mirror!!
I've tried everything from covering the mirror with a towel (It somehow got it off & went back to ****ting on the housing) to getting one of those fake owls (Scared the beegeesus out of the blue jays, but not the little bird), but nothing seems to work.
On the one hand, watching a 3 inch bird try to hump a full sized pick-up is really kinda hilarious, but on the other had, the results are truly disgusting.
Has anybody else had this problem, and if so, how did you resolve it? Right now I have resorted to tying plastic bags over the mirrors!!
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me id clean the the top of the mirror off and lay a strip of superglue on top of it then the next time he landed there he'd be stuck. then I'd take him for a ride. if he survived that I bet he didn't ever land on a mirror again. 
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hey I like Jason's idea
You could stick some of that flypaper to the top of the mirror, very hard to get that off. 'Course, it's gonna make a mess of the top of the mirror either way.
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I have a similar problem with a couple of Cardinals that think the back end of my bed is where they should hang out for their little chirping sessions. My son
even found their nest in the bushes and removed it, they just built another. I
now carry a bottle of water in my drivers door compartment and 6 out of 7
days a week I'm washing off my bed cover before I drive off......
even found their nest in the bushes and removed it, they just built another. I
now carry a bottle of water in my drivers door compartment and 6 out of 7
days a week I'm washing off my bed cover before I drive off......
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Cardinals and bluebirds...
Not sure if it's a territorial thing or what, but they've done it to me a few times. Only way you're going to solve that problem is if the bird leaves... migration or death. If it's a non-migratory species I'd say you better be looking toward option #2.......
Not sure if it's a territorial thing or what, but they've done it to me a few times. Only way you're going to solve that problem is if the bird leaves... migration or death. If it's a non-migratory species I'd say you better be looking toward option #2.......
