Bird + towing mirrors = frustration
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Post Fiend
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From: Wallingford, CT
Bird + towing mirrors = frustration
I've got a cardinal at my house that has decided my towing mirrors are a great place to sit. It craps all over the plastic side and pecks at its reflection in the glass. I need this stupid thing gone. I'm not putting bags over the mirrors every day and I'm afraid that folding and un-folding the mirrors constantly will cause the wires for the power adjustment on the mirrors to fatigue and break. What are my options here?
I've already tried putting my truck in different places in the driveway and the bird just keeps going after my mirrors. My driveway is too close to the neighbors house to shoot it as well. Options?
I've already tried putting my truck in different places in the driveway and the bird just keeps going after my mirrors. My driveway is too close to the neighbors house to shoot it as well. Options?
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I've got a cardinal at my house that has decided my towing mirrors are a great place to sit. It craps all over the plastic side and pecks at its reflection in the glass. I need this stupid thing gone. I'm not putting bags over the mirrors every day and I'm afraid that folding and un-folding the mirrors constantly will cause the wires for the power adjustment on the mirrors to fatigue and break. What are my options here?
I've already tried putting my truck in different places in the driveway and the bird just keeps going after my mirrors. My driveway is too close to the neighbors house to shoot it as well. Options?
I've already tried putting my truck in different places in the driveway and the bird just keeps going after my mirrors. My driveway is too close to the neighbors house to shoot it as well. Options?
pedant
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From: EXTREME southwest CT
Pete,
Maybe instead of trying to make it leave your truck alone you should give it a more tempting perch?
If he had his own mirror somewhere else close by (with perhaps a dowel to land on in front of the mirror) he might prefer it over your truck.
They are territorial by nature.
Maybe instead of trying to make it leave your truck alone you should give it a more tempting perch?
If he had his own mirror somewhere else close by (with perhaps a dowel to land on in front of the mirror) he might prefer it over your truck.
They are territorial by nature.
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I have heard that birds won't nest in a large pvc pipe because they don't like the petroleum smell.?.? Try spraying some WD40 on the perch a few times to see if that would be enough smell to make the bird go away. Then use some brake cleaner to clean up that mess... Hey, ya gotta see what works.
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From: Reed Point, MT
I had that problem with blue birds. I had 4 vehicles in the driveway and the stupid bird would hop from vehicle to vehicle and poop on all of them. I did the bag trick, but I didn't drive the truck every day so it didn't bother me to take the bags off every time I went somewhere. I let the bird poop on my ex-wife's car though.
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Easy, go to the dollar store and get a rubber snake. Lay it on the mirror frame every night. Problem solved. I had a pair of birds that decided they wanted to make my grill their nest. No matter what I did, cover it, shoot bbs at them, they kept coming back. I put a rubber snake on the lid, they never came back.
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Yes I'd shoot a bird off my truck it's sitting on top of the mirror. I'm a pretty good shot so as long as I'm shooting parallel with the truck no big deal except that the neighbors are right there. Was only gonna use a pellet gun.
But I think I'll try the rubber snake. If nothing else it'll be good for a laugh.
But I think I'll try the rubber snake. If nothing else it'll be good for a laugh.
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And they've got plenty of places they can be other than my mirror they just choose to sit on my mirror. There's 2 decent sized cedars near my driveway that the stupid thing flies back into when I go out to the truck. They've got to have nests in there.