bird problem

[Tractorat]

I wonder if anyone has had this problem

We haven't had any robins in my neighbor for at least years and years. They have been coming around just last and now this year. (Not as many crows as we used to have)



Maybe a month ago, I notice some bird poop on the back of the passenger side view mirror. At first I thought it was just in a flight path and was getting bombed from the air. But then I realized that a bird had been landing on the mirror and "fighting" with the "bird" in the reflection. (Not sure if it was the reflection of the mirror in the window, or if he hangs his head over the top of the mirror and looks down)



Anyway, my solution was to tie a plastic grocery bag (now on both sides) over the mirror. It works very well, and I get no bird poop when I do this. I thought that maybe they would move on. But if I leave the bag off the mirror, I get hit again.



As I say, the plastic bag solution works very well, but it is a pain in the ***. I wonder if anyone else has had this problem and has solved it in a different way. I thought about putting a piece of cardboard in the window, or a picture of a hawk. Any ideas that are tried and true ?

 

[mwilson]

I don't know of anything right off hand but last spring we had a Tom Turkey wear out the grass in front of a brand new Western Star with a shiny chrome bumper.

He could see his reflection in the bumper and would stay there all day challenging the other Tom... ..... back and forth, back and forth... ...



Hysterical to watch... ... :-laf



Mike.

 

[JFought]

take the bird out!
lol that does suck. .

 

[p-Bar]

I don't know of anything right off hand but last spring we had a Tom Turkey wear out the grass in front of a brand new Western Star with a shiny chrome bumper.

He could see his reflection in the bumper and would stay there all day challenging the other Tom... ..... back and forth, back and forth... ...



Hysterical to watch... ... :-laf



Mike.

You could shoot em and have a deepfry for the American Loggers:-laf

 

[Missouri Mule]

Shootting them or harming them in any way isn't the answer. The reason is that the Robin is the National Bird (can you spell jail time). The Florida strawberries farmers have to put up with them too. They fire shotguns in the air when they land on the field , carbon cannons, recordings of screaching Hawks... .

You could buy a fake owl at store and sit on your roof (I think that home improvement stores sell them).

 

[BigHornMan]

Make sure it isn't a black bird before pulling out your nine millimeter and shoot it . . You wouldn't want to be accused of bird discrimination or bird profiling by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or the left wing media. Without realizing it you could become the Zimmerman of the black bird world...

 

[JFought]

big lol!!! no no do NOT shoot a black one!