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Old 10-03-2011, 08:01 PM   #1
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Why is it, you have just washed your pride & joy, go inside, & when you come back out you find that some bloody bird has dropped a big **** all over your car ? Do they sit there & watch you, just waiting for that oppurtunity.
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:04 PM   #2
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If they can't have one, the next best thing is ****ing off people who do.
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:13 PM   #3
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Bats are worse in Queensland..they drop acid!!!!!
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:15 PM   #4
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Birds: The trolls of the sky.
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:16 PM   #5
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Why is it, you have just washed your pride & joy, go inside, & when you come back out you find that some bloody bird has dropped a big **** all over your car ? Do they sit there & watch you, just waiting for that oppurtunity.
Gee I though my missus was hard on my hobby, but you got it bad...
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:28 PM   #6
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You should see the Ibis (Ibi?) at school. They can unzip a lunch cooler bag, tip it over to get the lunch box out then push it off the table to hopefully pop the lunch box open...

If only we can train them to put the rubbish back in the bin that they toss out when they are digging for scraps...
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Old 10-03-2011, 08:30 PM   #7
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You should see the Ibis (Ibi?) at school. They can unzip a lunch cooler bag, tip it over to get the lunch box out then push it off the table to hopefully pop the lunch box open...

If only we can train them to put the rubbish back in the bin that they toss out when they are digging for scraps...
I'd love to see that. Can't be too easy with those long beaks.
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Old 11-03-2011, 09:14 AM   #8
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birds DO target cars, and rocks and anything else that appears. my car is also bright orange, so insects find it's particularly attractive, even when it's coming at them at 100kph. splat
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Old 11-03-2011, 09:25 AM   #9
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Old 11-03-2011, 12:32 PM   #10
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I have a carport and have at times found bird **** on the ceiling of it. As in, on the underside of the roof. How does that even happen.
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I have a carport and have at times found bird **** on the ceiling of it. As in, on the underside of the roof. How does that even happen.
They probably fly in and sit on the roof of the car scoping the place out for some tasty insects...
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I have a carport and have at times found bird **** on the ceiling of it. As in, on the underside of the roof. How does that even happen.
Acrobatic birds are performing loop the loop under your carport, one got a little too close the the roof and **** itself halfway around?
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Why is it, you have just washed your pride & joy, go inside, & when you come back out you find that some bloody bird has dropped a big **** all over your car ? Do they sit there & watch you, just waiting for that oppurtunity.

I suspect that Ford execs have the same opinion of the Aussie motoring press...
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Old 11-03-2011, 02:45 PM   #14
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They probably fly in and sit on the roof of the car scoping the place out for some tasty insects...
Or they are angry because the pigs stole their eggs.



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Old 11-03-2011, 03:50 PM   #15
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I think its because the more shinier the car is they see it as water. So after you wash the car its the cleanest it makes them want to do target practice.
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Bats are worse in Queensland..they drop acid!!!!!

It's not just bats - pigeon crap on my car has stripped the paint back to bare metal!
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