Mudlark in love with mirrors .............
Submitted: Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 15:40
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Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ
ok it borders the "off topic" rule but it does it to tourists when they pull up here ........
Hi all, i have a little black n white mudlark that has fallen in love with it's self,
well the one she see's in my car mirrors, it is getting to be a right pain in the butt as i can wash the car and 3 days time the mirrors will covered in greasey marks, poo all over them and on the roof, if i forget and leave a window down she sits on the window glass and poos down the door trims and she even has dropped a couple on the dash..
I have had reps and contractors stay overnight and it is all over their mirrors also incluiding tourists cars that pull up out the front ............
Now i like liddle birdys and stuff like that so short of "death" what can i do...
Any ideas folks ?????? i havd placed cardboard boxes over the mirrors so it sat on the bonnet and walked up and down the windscreen .........
ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Cheers
Joe
Reply By: mikehzz - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 15:51
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 15:51
You can buy big replica birds of prey like owls and hawks and sit them on the car somewhere. You have to move them around every day or the little birds wise up to the hoax. Cheers Mike
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Follow Up By: Member - nick b - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:18
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:18
Or something a bit cheaper a plastic bag ; they will hang around for a while (weeks)
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Follow Up By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:53
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:53
could try that, i wont have the patence to keep moving it though :-)
Cheers
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Reply By: Member Al (Sunshine Coast) - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:19
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:19
Or you could try one of these Joe...........
LOL
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Follow Up By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:58
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:58
i have a laser pointer from a promo, i will try it but if you have to do it all day i dont think that is gunna work for me, could get the kids to do it but knowing my kids they will probally point it at a passing copper and i will end up in the clink hahahah
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Toyocrusa (NSW) - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:23
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:23
Hi Joe. I wonder how another mirror would go hanging in a tree or similar in the vicinity. It may stay at that one instead if it is permanent. Cheers,Bob
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Follow Up By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 17:01
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 17:01
that has run through my mind, i have a mirror so i will give that a go now, i reckon if i can get one of them curved ones it will always see a big fatty in it and stress out, go on a diet and eat nothin and cark it, end of my problem.....
I LIKE that idea hahaha
Cheers
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Reply By: Member Al (Sunshine Coast) - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:45
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:45
Looks like a job for ............
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Reply By: Member - Murray R (VIC) - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:56
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 16:56
Joe
We have the same problem down here in Vic with wrens and swallows, mainly over the summer months. My daughter also has them doing the same thing with the house windows under their rear deck. They solved the problem by hanging a CD disc on a piece of string so that it spins with breeze .Maybe you could hang a few off some trees and see what happens.
Cheers Murray
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Reply By: Member - Bruce C (NSW) - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 18:09
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 18:09
Hi Joe,
What you are seeing is a territorial defense thing as the bird has not seen the one in the mirror before and therefore assumes it is a stranger invading its territory.
Every attack on this intruder is met with an equal attack of equal force and so this could and usually does go on for weeks. I get the same thing with the Pee Wees here on the Mid North Coast NSW.
I got the wife to make a couple of socks out of scrap material to put over the mirrors, end of the game. They all went about there business as normal and I did not have to clean up after them.
They are persistent though aren't they.
Cheers, Bruce.
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Reply By: MEMBER - Darian, SA - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 19:51
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 19:51
Us too, but our 'bovver-bird' is just small enough to be cute - the mudlark could do damage for sure. While having a picnic on the south coast of Victoria near
Portland, this little fella was 'beating up all the birds in our mirror', pretty much until we left.
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Reply By: pop2jocem - Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 20:27
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 20:27
Not sure about who is invading who's territory.....the bird or the bloke with the mirror.....lol
Cheers
Pop
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