When will the birds stop sh*tting?

[dieseluser07]

For the past 6 weeks, every single day i have seen bird st somewhere on my otherwise well presented clean car, every day i go out to clean it off and its starting to get annoying.

Are they going to be stting all over cars til winter or is it just that time of the year at the minute? I cant remember seeing so many cars covered in bird st before, this year seems to be horrendous.

[Axeboy]

Agreed

Every day I go out my car has a new design on it. Seems worse but it could be that my current daily (new Passat) seems to melt within less than an hour of it appearing.

Ohh, and I did speak to VW about it, as all the cars Ive had here this one seems to get damaged within such a short time, so they told me to just get a car cover and cover it each day, magic

[cuprabob]

I have to agree with you, this year seems much worse than previous years. This dry spell over the last 10 or so days has had them doing overtime on my car.

[Christmassss]

I work on an industrial estate and everyday, with out fail all of our cars will be covered in st from the 100's (no exaggeration) of seagulls that live on the buildings.

We employ a falconry service to deal with the eggs but it doesn't make a difference.

st. Everywhere

[minimalist]

[Rawwr]

Weird. My car is getting shat on like a German pornstar at the moment. It's quite irritating.

[vsonix]

Yeah we have big gull issues here in central Exeter too. I fail to understand why the council can't do something about these horrible scavengers. It's all well and good putting spikes all over the roof, chimneys etc but they only ever last a year, maybe two before the things get knocked or blown off and it's back to square one again...

[donkmeister]

Over the past 3 years round here they've flattened huge swathes of countryside to house all the people who want to escape London and its suburbs - each year we have more bird poo, foxes, rats etc as they are losing their natural habitats so adapting. Any chance you're experiencing that too perchance?
(NB my town is a local town for local people, that's why i moved here from London. I'm local, but everyone who moved here after me isn't )

[J4CKO]

We have a massive Beech tree at the front and its a popular roosting spot for Morbidly Obese Wood Pigeons, well, either that or a pack of Rottweilers have learnt to climb trees simply to defecate onto our cars. They start their inane warblings at about 3 am at this time of year, I reckon if we could decipher it, they would be saying "Check this Barry, I am turtling here, going to park it on that tts Merc"

It starts off in Feb and its really, really bad, wash the car and then turn round and the car is a sea of crap, though things improve when leaves appear as the poo lands on the leaves on the way down. I have had cars shat on whilst I have been washing and polishing.

My way to deal with it is to have the hose out permanently for a few weeks, and just blast some water onto the cars when there is any crap on them, leave it for a bit and repeat and it softens up enough to remove, when it is dry it is impossible, an industry insider at Airbus said they have recently switched from dried Weetabix to Wood Pigeon dumps to hold A380 wings on, such is the tenacity with which they will bond to surfaces.

[cuprabob]

J4CKO said:

.. an industry insider at Airbus said they have recently switched from dried Weetabix to Wood Pigeon dumps to hold A380 wings on, such is the tenacity with which they will bond to surfaces.

Like it:-)

[WJNB]

Try living near the sea. I live within a mile & have to endure endless seagull st made worse because a near neighbour, retired & with no friends & I suspect an empty life feeds the nasty things. Nails on the roof ridge tiles & the use of a certain illegal deterrent does seem to keep most of them away from me though.
Sadly twitchers will go all teary eyed at any attempt to kill disease carrying seagulls & no doubt pigeons & magpies too.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Christmassss said:

We employ a falconry service to deal with the eggs but it doesn't make a difference.

It must make a difference. Surely it would be worse if all those eggs were allowed to hatch.

[swisstoni]

I wasn't aware that birds stting was a particularly new phenomenon.
It might be quite a long time before they stop completely I'm afraid.

[dieseluser07]

So is it likely i will have to deal with this all summer then? I keep my car waxed but apparently the st eats through it anyway

[xjay1337]

dieseluser07 said:

So is it likely i will have to deal with this all summer then? I keep my car waxed but apparently the st eats through it anyway

Yes, but the bird dirt generally damages the paint by changing the way the paint expands and contracts. Covered area is cooler and doesn't expand where as the area around the outside does heat up and as such you get the outline of the bird dirt.

Keep in shade . Ceramic coatings / gtechniq c1 / car pro cquartz / any number of similar types of coating HELP but will not prevent.

[99dndd]

Just remember, cows can't fly.

[Cold]

Halfords

[SuperchargedVR6]

Christmassss said:

I work on an industrial estate and everyday, with out fail all of our cars will be covered in st from the 100's (no exaggeration) of seagulls that live on the buildings.

We employ a falconry service to deal with the eggs but it doesn't make a difference.

st. Everywhere

Not in Colchester by any chance? Walked past an industrial estate at lunchtime today and saw a chap with his old Falcon out, with heap big gulls flying around (literally 100s as you say). I wondered why the effort, but we can't have the directors car being covered in dung, can we!

But my view on bird crud is it doesn't bother me. It slots neatly into my ever growing "First world problems" pile. People in developed countries who don't have a serious illness don't have any REAL problems to deal with anymore, so they get all p1ssy about very menial stuff instead.

[J4CKO]

SuperchargedVR6 said:

Christmassss said:

I work on an industrial estate and everyday, with out fail all of our cars will be covered in st from the 100's (no exaggeration) of seagulls that live on the buildings.

We employ a falconry service to deal with the eggs but it doesn't make a difference.

st. Everywhere

Not in Colchester by any chance? Walked past an industrial estate at lunchtime today and saw a chap with his old Falcon out, with heap big gulls flying around (literally 100s as you say). I wondered why the effort, but we can't have the directors car being covered in dung, can we!

But my view on bird crud is it doesn't bother me. It slots neatly into my ever growing "First world problems" pile. People in developed countries who don't have a serious illness don't have any REAL problems to deal with anymore, so they get all p1ssy about very menial stuff instead.

I dont think anyone is really that fussed about a bit of crap on their car relative to Amoebic Dysentery !

[SuperchargedVR6]

J4CKO said:

SuperchargedVR6 said:

Christmassss said:

I work on an industrial estate and everyday, with out fail all of our cars will be covered in st from the 100's (no exaggeration) of seagulls that live on the buildings.

We employ a falconry service to deal with the eggs but it doesn't make a difference.

st. Everywhere

Not in Colchester by any chance? Walked past an industrial estate at lunchtime today and saw a chap with his old Falcon out, with heap big gulls flying around (literally 100s as you say). I wondered why the effort, but we can't have the directors car being covered in dung, can we!

But my view on bird crud is it doesn't bother me. It slots neatly into my ever growing "First world problems" pile. People in developed countries who don't have a serious illness don't have any REAL problems to deal with anymore, so they get all p1ssy about very menial stuff instead.

I dont think anyone is really that fussed about a bit of crap on their car relative to Amoebic Dysentery !

It bothered the OP enough to put keystrokes to screen, and swear 3 times