Incontinent blue tit and my car

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Thu 22 Mar 2007 22:28
Incontinent blue tit and my car - hjd
Strange header I know...
A blue tit has taken to perching on my car's mirror when the car is parked on the drive, and then doing what comes naturally all down the door. It has done it on both sides in succession and keeps coming back.
Any suggestions as to how to get it to go elsewhere?
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 22:30
Incontinent blue tit and my car - mss1tw
And the award for best thread title goes to...:^D

I thought it a soon to be edited topic about OAP's...
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 22:30
Incontinent blue tit and my car - csgmart
Hang your nuts from the exhaust.....
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 22:40
Incontinent blue tit and my car - hjd
Sorry, no nuts. Wrong gender.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 00:12
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Lud
Sorry, no nuts. Wrong gender.


Someone else's then. Where's your initiative?
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 22:35
Incontinent blue tit and my car - johnny
Parked at some bird reserve in mid Wales and watched chaffinches attacking their own reflection in our wing mirrors.
Silicone polish so that they slip off? Photo of a sparrowhawk on the windows?

Is it just me or do all blue tits looklike Chris de Burgh?
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 22:36
Incontinent blue tit and my car - mss1tw
Is it just me or do all blue tits looklike Chris
de Burgh?


That's just begging for a lawsuit.

de Burgh's brief might have a pop too.

Poor little bird. :o(
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 23:21
Incontinent blue tit and my car - FotheringtonThomas
A blue tit has taken to perching on my car's mirror
when the car is parked on the drive, and then doing
what comes naturally all down the door. It has done it
on both sides in succession and keeps coming back.
Any suggestions as to how to get it to go elsewhere?


Talk to your milkman.
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 23:25
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Stuartli
Remove the Tesco wild birds' feed hanging from the mirror.
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 23:37
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Dynamic Dave
On a more serious note, a colleague of mine pointed me towards the RSPB website as a long tail tit has tapping on my office window for the past 5 weeks.

tinyurl.com/38ufq6
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Thu 22 Mar 2007 23:44
Incontinent blue tit and my car - johnny
Ditto wagtails at our office.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 00:14
Incontinent blue tit and my car - henry k
I was amused at a Crow tapping on a window 10 feet up over the entrance to an A&E very late in the afternoon a week ago.
It was at least a little distraction for the waiting queue.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 00:16
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Lud
If it's just one bird, you could perhaps shoot it?

Be careful though. A farmer friend of mine had a Mercedes coupe whose nearside mirror had caught a charge of No. 4 at close range when he was negligently shooting running rabbits from the driver's seat...
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 00:31
Incontinent blue tit and my car - No Do$h
Happens here on the estate all the time. No respecters of class, the birds cack with vigour on everything from my wife's L200 to the Range Rover of La Grande Fromage himself, pausing briefly to despoil the Landrover and Mrs Fromage's Merc in the process.

The solution? Tie a carrier bag over your wing mirrors. Sounds strange, but this works.

Now if anyone can tell me how to stop a cock pheasant getting similarly biological everytime he fights with his reflection in the garage window, I would be forever in your debt. Shotguns not allowed I'm afraid, for said pheasant is not allowed to grace the table, having been named "Eric" by Mrs ND. (Food must not have a name it seems.....)
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 16:27
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Waino
My old metallic blue Sierra used to arouse the local cock pheasants and peacocks.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 06:29
Incontinent blue tit and my car - L'escargot
A blue tit has taken to perching on my car's mirror
when the car is parked on the drive, and then doing
what comes naturally all down the door.

Any suggestions as to how to get it to go elsewhere?


Park the car in the garage.
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L\'escargot.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 13:17
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Cliff Pope
Like most people now, it thinks a door mirror is the same as a wing mirror.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 14:21
Incontinent blue tit and my car - geoff1248
Buy a tin of grease, any thick sticky type will do, and smear it on the part of the mirror it is using. Environmentally sound and bird friendly. Just clean the grease off once the bird has transferred to another car on the street..
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 14:26
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Stargazer {P}
Same problem in Oz but different speices of bird....fairy wrens over there go mad attacking
the reflection every spring as they are quite territorial. The answer was to tie a plastic carrier bag over each
wing mirror when parking the car.

StarGazer
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 14:28
Incontinent blue tit and my car - geoff1248
You could always try folding the mirrors in when you park.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 14:27
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Westpig
I was always taught that if a bird carped on your car you shouldn't date her again
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 16:37
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Vin {P}
Air rifle.

V
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 21:47
Incontinent blue tit and my car - OAP

>>>I thought it a soon to be edited topic about OAP's...

Watch it Mss!
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Mon 2 Apr 2007 14:04
Incontinent blue tit and my car - mss1tw
:^D
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 22:18
Incontinent blue tit and my car - No Do$h
Probably said in jest Vin, but illegal to shoot any bird with an air rifle other than those on the Defra pest list . It allows shooting of pigoens (feral and wood), collared dove, all corvids and that's about it.
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 23:49
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Nsar
You'd have to be a sodding good shot before you pointed a rifle at a bird not much bigger than your thumb that was sat on your car!
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Fri 23 Mar 2007 23:51
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Lud
You'd have to be a sodding good shot before you pointed
a rifle at a bird not much bigger than your thumb
that was sat on your car!


Yeah but a short-barrelled 10-bore loaded with smallish shot ought to do the trick, provided the car wasn't too new...
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Mon 2 Apr 2007 13:13
Incontinent blue tit and my car - daveweim
Hi,

I am having a similar problem with two sparrows on both my car and my partner's car. They appear to be attacking both wing mirrors. I have a feeling that they are nesting in the nearby hedge, see a reflection of themselves, believe it to be a rival bird and attack the mirror. They are definitely not the brightest! Anyway, one morning I noticed blood on my mirror so they have been injuring themselves. I covered the mirror in a plastic bag held with an elastic band and have had no problems since.
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Mon 2 Apr 2007 14:05
Incontinent blue tit and my car - Big Bad Dave
On Wheeler Dealers, Ed China use a pair of rubber gloves to mask the mirrors of a jeep he was respraying.
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Mon 2 Apr 2007 14:18
Incontinent blue tit and my car - OldSkoOL
Put plastic bags over the wing mirrors with some elastic bands to keep them on or buy a bird tables complete with food and see if that deters them.

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