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Put the owl on the mirror. Duh.
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Or maybe cover the mirror with an old sock. snailgate

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I've never seen a owl on the ground... always in a high perch.

Put Aldi Owl on top of the car roof. Maybe you can double your effort using Aldi's fine, feathered, friend, Freddie Falcon.

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Why can’t you park in the garage? (If it’s too full of stuff, maybe it’s time for a yard sale?)
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My ideas were the best.

Try them.


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BoSoxGal wrote:Why can’t you park in the garage? (If it’s too full of stuff, maybe it’s time for a yard sale?)
Because then you have to keep opening and closing the garage door, and that will eventually wear out the garage door opener so that someday it won't work.  And of course, Murphy's Law says that *that* will happen at the worst possible time, like when you're already running late for something.
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Actually, your ideas aren’t the best. Especially the one about playing a peregrine or other prey bird call - because there are a host of songbirds and other prey nesting right now in the area and such tactics disturb all of them, not just one robin who is making a bit of mess that soap and water can solve.

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About electric garage door openers...……...

If I'm not mistaken.....can't electric garage door openers be operated in the "manual mode"?

If I recall there's a little rope attached to the door ass'y just in case the need arises.

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dales wrote:About electric garage door openers...……...

If I'm not mistaken.....can't electric garage door openers be operated in the "manual mode"?

If I recall there's a little rope attached to the door ass'y just in case the need arises.
I don't have one so I don't know, but I was thinking about something like the motor burning out or the chain or track breaking or jamming or something like that that would prevent the door from opening, even by brute force.
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rubato wrote:My ideas were the best.

Try them.
So you want me to get a phone with a Turdus migratorious ringtone, place it in the car and keep watch. When said little vandal approaches the car, I dial the phone. (What with? My phone's in the car.)

If I'm keeping an eye on the car all morning I might just as well throw a beanbag at him. Probably more effective and won't eat up my minutes.

I can't put the car in the garage because I'm drywalling it. (See post 1 in this thread.) Should be done in a week or two.

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Two Words...



CAR COVER

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Your wife does not have a phone? You don't have a landline? You can also just play the robin's song on your phone while holding it up to an adj. window. I've done this with songbirds in the yard and I usually get an interesting response.

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Is there no other place to park?

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Bicycle Bill wrote:
BoSoxGal wrote:Why can’t you park in the garage?
Because then you have to keep opening and closing the garage door, and that will eventually wear out the garage door opener so that someday it won't work. 
But isn't that the idea of having a garage. . . to park the car in it? Do you live outside your house to avoid wear and tear on the doors? :lol:

Anyway, I've yet to see a garage that doesn't have a regular door, either to the outside (if detached garage) or the house (attached garage) - so if the garage opener fails, it's easy to access and pull that little red handle thingie to by-pass the mechanism and go manual. From my experience, failure of the spring/track is a damn nuisance but a relatively easy fix, if somewhat language-improving, and happens with both manual and automatic doors.
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Just to bring you up to date. He's stopped crapping on my car. I tried the sock on the mirror thing: didn't work because he sees his reflection in the window and is just as pissed.

Sock plus owl seemed to work for a while but I was never sure whether he had just lost interest - found a mate, or at least developed a fondness for the opposite sex. Now I have finished drywalling the garage so it's not a problem any more.

I put the owl on the back porch to keep the coyotes away. SFSG until I checked today while I was mowing the back. See below. I think he's messing with me now.

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