solution for birds poopin on your car

[retired]

I really don't see what the problem is. I have a street light in front of my home and the crows sit on top quite often. I learned soon after moving in what happens when you park your vehicle beneath the light.

Solution: I moved the vehicle and whala!; no more messy truck from bird poop. Shooting them never even came to mind.

Now, if you can't park it in the garage, either move it away from the trees or cover it. If you live in a rural area covered with trees and there is no place to move it and your cover will be full of you know what; guess what: you probably live in a rural area to be away from all the people and traffic and decided to be with nature instead. I guess that's what you are doing, living with nature. Why destroy it.

Now I'm not some PETA member, far from it; they are 5150 (to use a le term). True, I don't hunt, but I also don't begrude those that do; it just isn't for me. I just have trouble understanding why some people have to resort to shooting an animal just because it bothers them.

I have coyotes in the hills next to me; they have actually been in my front and back yards and killed one of my cats years ago. I was sad my cat was killed (others in the neighborhood lost small animals also), but I didn't go out with my 22 to kill them. My new home was built in their territory, I just have to learn to adjust to that by taking care of my animals better. Also, in my city, I would have been arrested if I went out shooting any coyotes, unless they were actually attacking people or my animals. Yes, I know I live in a city in California, so flame away.

I realize in some areas certain animals like the starlings or wild pigs have caused widespread damage or a major nuisance and laws allow their eradication. That's fine, I just don't see going out and killing some animal like a crow that is making a lot of noise where you live or is messing your vehicle up. Call me strange, but I've just learned to deal with what nature deals out, without having to resort to killing it. Most of what I have dealt with along the line of pesty animals (except for the rattlesnakes; I'll give you that) are no where near as bad as dealing with the idiots I dealt with while in le; in the street and in the jail. Man, now there are some people that needed to be done away with.

[Brickboy240]

Yes, crows are a real pain in the ass. Here in Texas, as long as you have a valid hunting license, you can blaze away at them with no closed season and no bag limit. They're really nothing more than flying rats around here.

Crows around here are pretty skittish to people. I thinnk they get shot at alot and they're wary of most people. They're not like the incrdeibly stupid Mexican whitewing doves, that you can blast sitting in a tree and they circle around and come right back in minutes...over and over again. You have to use a little stealth to get close to our crows, but it is very do-able.

My favorite things to blast crows with are my Taurus 17HMR pump rifle and the Mauser 22-250 varmint rig. I have busted crows out to 200-250 yards with the 22-250. They never knew what was coming. The 22-250 does alot of damage to a crow.

Come to think of it, so does the 17HMR. With this rifle, I like to sneak up under a group of them in a tall cedar tree and let them have it. With the fast nature of the 17HMR pump rifle, I can sometimes get 2 or 3 of them, before they figure out whats going on and all fly away. I would never shoot one on my car, though.

Big fun.

- Brickboy240

[Meta4]

Originally Posted by brian40

They actually have a season on crows here in NE. Fun to shoot

Out of sheer curiosity, what are you supposed to do with the crows you shoot? Eat them? Bury them? Leave them?

-James

[nightraider]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Yes, crows are a real pain in the ass. Here in Texas, as long as you have a valid hunting license, you can blaze away at them with no closed season and no bag limit. They're really nothing more than flying rats around here.

Crows around here are pretty skittish to people. I thinnk they get shot at alot and they're wary of most people. They're not like the incrdeibly stupid Mexican whitewing doves, that you can blast sitting in a tree and they circle around and come right back in minutes...over and over again. You have to use a little stealth to get close to our crows, but it is very do-able.

My favorite things to blast crows with are my Taurus 17HMR pump rifle and the Mauser 22-250 varmint rig. I have busted crows out to 200-250 yards with the 22-250. They never knew what was coming. The 22-250 does alot of damage to a crow.

Come to think of it, so does the 17HMR. With this rifle, I like to sneak up under a group of them in a tall cedar tree and let them have it. With the fast nature of the 17HMR pump rifle, I can sometimes get 2 or 3 of them, before they figure out whats going on and all fly away. I would never shoot one on my car, though.

Big fun.

- Brickboy240

Maybe its just me, but I've never seen a crow in Houston. I've seen grackles and LOTS of dove, but never a crow.

[Brickboy240]

The crows we shoot are at Dads place in Fayetteville. Loads of crows out there...believe me!

- Brickboy240

[Plinkomatic]

I had a problem with birds and I found a PERFECT answer.
Plastic owl on a stick.
Worked amazingly.
I use it every time I seed my lawn.
Make sure to get one with yellow reflective eyes.

[brian40]

Originally Posted by Meta4

Out of sheer curiosity, what are you supposed to do with the crows you shoot? Eat them? Bury them? Leave them?

-James

Leave the dirty bastards lie, as someone said earlier they are just flying rats.

Before anyone goes off on me here, save it for the PETA rally.

[Brickboy240]

Yes, they ARE flying rats to us...a nuisance that craps on everything. They crap so much that if cattle could fly, they'd have nothing on a flock of crows. One area's wanted nature is another area's pest, I guess.

Coyotes? Same problem, especially since Dads neighbors raise chickens, geese and turkeys. They're a nuisance animal and they carry rabies, distemper and other diseases, too.

Actually, the owl decoy is not a good idea AT ALL if you want to get rid of crows. Many here use owl decoys to attract crows - they're natural enemies. Dad's neighbors used to tak an owl decoy and place it on a cedar fencepost out in the open and hide under nearby trees and play a cassette tape of crows and owl calls. The crows would fly right at the decoy and attack it...unbelieveable...like decoying ducks to a spread of duck decoys on a pond. The crows are not that stupid and after a few runs on the decoy, its all over but they shot many of them and it was amazing how the crows were really irriatated by the owl decoy.

Yeah, I'd say that if you want to get rid of doves or bluejays, an owl decoy would work, but the crows will flock to it like mad. I never would have believed it, unless I had seen this myself.

Do NOT put an owl decoy out to ward off crows...it will do just the opposite.

- Brickboy240

[Plinkomatic]

Interesting.... I use the Owls for doves and other seed eating, car crapping birds. The hummingbirds fortunately don't mind the Owl, I guess they are in cahoots with crows.

[jednp]

Originally Posted by Plinkomatic

I had a problem with birds and I found a PERFECT answer.
Plastic owl on a stick.
Worked amazingly.
I use it every time I seed my lawn.
Make sure to get one with yellow reflective eyes.

That works for some birds, but for the most part lots of birds learn that the owl is fake and aren't afraid of it. Pigeons being one of those birds. Buildings have tried for years to keep them away with things like that. Companies now install "hot" wire along the edge of the top of buildings, and install metal sheeting on window sills that don't allow a bird to rest there. The hot wire has a mild electric current that zaps them when they land so they quickly fly away.