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Identfication help: A bird pooping near the car mirrors

  • 16-03-2014 3:39pm
    #1
    Ranjo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭


    Recently I noticed a collection of bird poop around both mine & wife's car near the side mirrors. I'm assuming one, or a small group of birds are having a little reflective time in the mirrors.

    I haven't been able to get sight of anything, so hoping it might be a common thing for a particular bird to do, and hoping someone may know what bird it might be.

    I'm going to take a wild guess, and say Chaffinch because I've seen one near a window of the house, and we have plenty of them (+ coal tits & the like) at the bird feeders.

    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Spot on. Chaffinch are the main offenders when it comes to attacking wing mirrors at this time of year. Turn the mirrors in when parking!


  • #3
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,530 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Sparrows at my parents house are obsessed with the car, always playing around on it.


  • #4
    Ranjo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭Ranjo


    Thanks. They're funny little buggers, I've been here 3 years with plenty of birds around & its the first time I've seen this. Would be good to catch a glimpse & observe them before I shut down the fun by folding mirrors in. :-)


  • #5
    Ranjo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭Ranjo


    Drove off this morning with my wing mirrors folded in. Not electric. Right hand side, no problem. Left hand side folded in all the way to work.

    Chaffinch 1 - Ranjo 0.


  • #6
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Wouldn't mind birds using my wing mirrors to poop off of so much if they'd only eat the spiders that live inside them and cover my mirrors with cobwebs :)


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  • #7
    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    Alun wrote: »
    Wouldn't mind birds using my wing mirrors to poop off of so much if they'd only eat the spiders that live inside them and cover my mirrors with cobwebs :)

    Herself has a spider living in her wing mirror the last 4 years (probably not the same one but she thinks it is), but wont power hose mirrors during car wash 'incase she kills him as he brings her luck'.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Joeseph Balls wrote: »
    Herself has a spider living in her wing mirror the last 4 years (probably not the same one but she thinks it is), but wont power hose mirrors during car wash 'incase she kills him as he brings her luck'.

    Tell her not to worry. I power hose the wing mirrors every week and my spider is still there!


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