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Re: Birds on cars

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Subject: Re: Birds on cars
From: "Cilla Kinross" <>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:27:25 +1100
I have also have had white-browed scrubwren offerings on my car and I found
the easiest solution was to stick some oven mitts over the wing mirrors when
leaving the car at work.  Works a treat.

Cilla Kinross
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Jolly <>
To: Birding Aus <>
Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2001 5:39 PM
Subject: Birds on cars


>Oh how I empathise with Niven and his honeyeater problem!
>
>With my car (note to Alex Appleman, it is cardinal red) the birds that
adorn
>it are White-browed Scrubwrens. They don't just sit on the mirrors. They
sit
>on the rubbers beneath the windows and leave a row of bright white
>tear-shaped residues along the full length of the car - both sides. About
15
>droppings per door, plus another 15 to 20 between the back door and the
rear
>end of the wagon - on each side. So that's around ninety individual
>presents, PLUS a veritable heap of guano on top of each mirror housing.
>
>There is no point washing the car too often - because it will be
redeposited
>over the course of the next day or so.
>
>But given that White-browed Scrubwrens are forever breeding around the
>house, and tend to wander around on the verandahs, and that they are such
>companionable and confiding little birds, I feel fairly comfortable with
>this attachment they've developed to the car. Perhaps I think of it as the
>sign of an intimate and privileged relationship - marked by a unique badge
>of distinction.
>
>Mind you, over the last few months my car has developed a distinctively
>scruffy look, probably not so well regarded by those outside this
fraternity
>of ours. Certainly when we go to town, or pick up visitors from the
airport,
>everyone knows which is the birders car!
>
>
>Bill Jolly
>
>"Abberton",
>Lockyer Valley, Queensland.
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