Our latest pride and joy, a shiny new Suzuki Swift Sport, is sitting in the drive. Trouble is, we’re not the only ones excited by it. There’s a demented blue tit that spends every daylight hour pecking frantically at the wing mirrors. Flap him away and two minutes later he’s back. Pecking. The only way to stop the little tit – and prevent the bird-poo that has to be washed off almost hourly – is to wrap plastic bags around the mirrors every time we park and secure them with rubber bands. It’s becoming a real faff.
The oddest thing of all is that a sparrow seems to have taken pity on the tiny bird, and brings it food. The sparrow carefully drops seeds on the edge of the mirror and then backs off and watches, presumably urging the blue tit to eat something. Can anyone offer an explanation?
I suspect that your stunning new Suzuki has hypnotically induced a dual case of mistaken identity…. The Tit now thinks it’s a baby “Swift” - and the Sparrow believes itself to be the real parent.
AlfaMartini | 21 Mar 07 - 3:01I’m no twitcher, but the clue’s in the name. When Suzuki launch the Tit Sport, I’m sure a swift will come along to restore the pecking order.
Gerry Pollard | 21 Mar 07 - 11:04I sent the tit to eat your car. I don’t like Suzukis.
Graham Whyte | 26 Mar 07 - 11:13But Suzuki have consistently produced superb motorcycles (and some half decent cars)….
Which leads me to believe that it is in fact, Tits that are consumable.
AlfaMartini | 26 Mar 07 - 18:09Hmmm…I’m starting to suspect fowl play. Have you seen the latest adverts for Swiftcover insurance? I fail to see why they are populated by chickens. Now if the company were called Hencover…
Massimo Pini | 27 Mar 07 - 0:06Massimo - Chicken Road Cross Why?
Graham Whyte | 10 Apr 07 - 11:03If Swiftcover insurance were to be renamed Hencover, would they not be more accurately defined as Rooster Courtesy Rentals…
AlfaMartini | 10 Apr 07 - 17:57I have a similar problem with nesting sparrows; as soon as I arrive home in the evening, until when I leave for work the following day, the little perishers are attacking their reflections in my door mirrors. I now put sainsbuy’s carrier bags over the mirrors, trapping them in the door. The sparrows now atack my neighbour’s car. . .
NIck Lord | 23 May 07 - 10:07We also have sparrows attacking the mirrors of our cars. Today they seemed to run out of steam slightly and ended up perched on the door, gazing at their reflctions in the window glass, crapping occasionaly. We have done the carrier bag over the window thing but as a neighbour pointed out it can be a bit dodgy if you drive off with the bags still in place.
Harry | 06 May 08 - 16:02