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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 03:09 PM
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Underhood BIRD NESTING?!?!?!?!

I took the beast to Valvoline today for a fluids change. Kid pops the hood and jumps back like he'd seen a ghost!

I got out of the truck and stepped up and lo and behold a bird had built it's nest between the fuse box and firewall on the drivers side.

Anyone else ever find one of these? Any ideas on prevention?
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 03:44 PM
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Thats crazy just last week a guy had a squirrle inside his truck, what is going on with all these animals trying to get into our ford truck's.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 03:47 PM
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Thats crazy just last week a guy had a squirrle inside his truck, what is going on with all these animals trying to get into our ford truck's.

It's the only truck the animals feel safe in.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 03:52 PM
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You build it (FIPK & Cat-back 3" pipes) and they will come DaveS
 

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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 04:00 PM
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I had a mouse in mine. There are little teeth marks in some of the wiring by my heater motor. luckily they didnt chew all the way through.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 04:13 PM
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this one is so close to being hijacked its not funny
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 04:34 PM
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When I had my fender flares cut out they found a Wren nest. They gave me grief that I need to keep it moving more....
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 04:40 PM
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LOL... Well, the truck sees 80MPH on the rather occasional basis, and gets 300-400 miles a week back and forth to work. We won't talk about St. Louis' roads and all the man-sized potholes...

I WILL say this: I was underhood 4 weeks ago changing the K&N out for a cleaner one, and checking fluids and fuses. NOTHING was there! They built a friggin bird CONDO in there inside of a month!
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 10:37 PM
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Friend had a nest with babies in (also found by oil change guy) under the hood of his van. He left them there and parked it back at home and the parents went right on feeding them as if they had never left. He is a bird lover so he didn't mind too much.
 
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 10:45 PM
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Had a buddy who bought a duramax to tow his horses. Truck is an 02 with 20k miles. Rarely driven and sits in a barn. Rats went from the front to the back and chewed up nearly $5k worth of stuff. It stays in the garage now.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2008 | 08:11 AM
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Use an owl decoy for a hood ornament? :-)
 
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Old Apr 6, 2008 | 08:23 AM
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Use an owl decoy for a hood ornament? :-)
Or a guard cat
 
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Old Apr 6, 2008 | 10:13 AM
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I had sparrows stuff a small hay bale between my radiator and bumper. I did put out the owl decoy and stopped the free loading.
 
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