Just picked my car up from the dealer last night and proudly parked it in the lot behind my office this morning. Not three hours later, got a voice mail from some of the guys down in IT telling me how much they love my car -- and informing me that it had a big bird poop right in the center of the hood!!

Of course, I ran out there and took care of it. The poop, I mean.

The bird, I'll take care of later. :evil:

 

Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop?
Answer: That is bird poop, too.

-Kurt Vonnegut

And congratulations on getting your car! Very nice color combo.

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It wasn't white. And that's all I'm gonna say.

 

Wipe that stuff off of there pronto! Especially if it's not white, that means the bird was eating berries and it's all acidic. Really, that stuff can eat into the paint!!!!

 

They say bird poop is a sign of good luck.

It seems everytime I wash my car hours later some birdbrain poops all over it.

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Though the trauma of seeing a blemish on Blanche remains, the aforementioned non-white poop is history.

 

poor little thing probably had an ill tummy and couldn't hold it in, and here you are, out for blood.

 

There was a minivan parked on my left and an SUV on my right, and the little bugger had to go and do its bidness on my less-than-24-hours-old baby?

You mess with (or, in this case, ON) Blanche, you mess with/on me!

 

>>You mess with (or, in this case, ON) Blanche, you mess with/on me!
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yeah!! Pepper White MINI's unite!!

Gidget

 

Couldn't you consider it a roof or Bonnet decal?

 

Our company is located in an industrial estate on an island, for some reason the island hosts a huge population of seagulls, probably about 300-400. Once every few months the flock decides to spend time resting on the roof of the building right next to our staff parking lot. The rest is exactly as you would expect, all of our cars (including MiniB of course ) get bombarded with whatever the group has been munching on. Seagulls are not small birds and they eat anything so the resulting mess is not a pretty sight.

Resisting the urge to take matters into our own hands, or should that be scopes, is difficult. The semi peaceful seagull discouragement practise that we can live with is to find reasonably small (quarter inch) rocks and hurl them up onto the roof. The noise is enough to scare the flock away, we have discovered that it is crucial to have a decent hat or better yet an umbrella during this event, as birds tend to do stuff (doo stuff) when they get scared.

Luckily for me there are 2 other people with 2002 vehicles in our office so we share the bird duty. We remain hopeful that the flock will learn that in our neighborhood their resting time will be disturbed. But then they are birdbrains, maybe it is us who will have to learn to buy car covers.

 

Poop happens. BTW Bob...I really like your look
in your HS photo album, speaking of poop.

 

>>poor little thing probably had an ill tummy and couldn't hold it in, and here you are, out for blood.
BTW birds can't 'hold it in.' No sphincters as far as I know.

 

Well, bird-intolerance runs in the family. My 85-year-old grandfather has been trying to keep seagulls from congregating (and pooping) on his roof for years. One of his solutions was to attach a 6-foot inflatable snake to his roof (like THAT was more aesthetically pleasing than bird droppings!).

But then, three years ago, he got a BB gun for Christmas and used it to "scare" the birds away. Unfortunately, one of his neighbors saw him outside with what they thought was a real rifle and called the police! The cops came and confiscated the gun, and my grandfather ended up in our hometown paper's police blotter. The title of the article was "Stratford Senior Loses Patience With Seagulls." I still have a copy of it on my refrigerator.

 

I took a similar approach to raccoons one time, although,
with a .22 I never got 'busted though.

 

>>>>poor little thing probably had an ill tummy and couldn't hold it in, and here you are, out for blood.
>>BTW birds can't 'hold it in.' No sphincters as far as I know.
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Wasn't it Socrates who said, "An unsphinctered life is not worh living"??

 

The title of the article was "Stratford Senior Loses Patience With Seagulls." I still have a copy of it on my refrigerator.
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Great story MotorinGirl, thanks for sharing it.

MiniB

 

The second day I had my MINI and the first day I parked it outside at work, my MINI had 3 huge bird droppings with the associated splatter. :smile:

 

that was a bad birdie http://www.imagestation.com/picture/....jpg.thumb.jpg

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That bird poop is no joke. We've had some of that berry-marbled acidic poop land on our Volvo (which has very soft paint) and even though we noticed it and removed it carefully within 24 hours, it actually rippled/abraded the paint permanently. The finish of the MINI is so lustrous I would assume it is similarly vulnerable.

 

Birds are enemy #1! They roost and sleep in the large trees in my neighborhood. These are huge shade trees that cover the street and the driveways. so Large groups of birds sleeping all night leave huge piles of poop covering the street or your whole driveway. When I moved in I'd see my neighbor spraying water from a high powered sprayer at night in the trees. sure enough, after 3-4 nights of getting hosed, the birds find a nicer place to sleep. most likely the tree down the street!

 

>>>>poor little thing probably had an ill tummy and couldn't hold it in, and here you are, out for blood.
>>BTW birds can't 'hold it in.' No sphincters as far as I know.
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I don't think they actually lack sphincters, as anyone who has ever had to look at a bird's butt can tell you that you can see sphincter-like movement back there. Birds just don't care where they go, so long as it is not in their nest or roost. Baby birds are born with the instinct to back their little tushies over the side of their nests when they need to go. So in a sense, they are born housebroken.

 

>>anyone who has ever had to look at a bird's butt can tell you
>>that you can see sphincter-like movement back there

Thanks. I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

 

>>>>anyone who has ever had to look at a bird's butt can tell you
>>>>that you can see sphincter-like movement back there
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>>Thanks. I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

Just so long as it isn't a recurring nightmare! Then you'd have to tell us about it in the Recurring Dreams thread in Off-topic.....

Actually, looking at their tushies is something you have to do when a bird co-habitates with you. A clean vent (as it's called) is indicative of good health, whereas a dirty one,....well, there could be all sorts of problems with that.

 

the poor birds lack of ability to control themselves is why my Caique (small parrot) will never see the inside of my mini (except in her travel cage)
JB