HELP! How to stop crows attacking my car?

[Inbedbynine]

I have a black car that Iv had 3/4 months and it is parked on my drive way. For the last month 2 crows keep attacking a specific area on the car. They start this as soon as it’s light. They are very angry with the car not just pecking at it and are really scratching it. There is no road kill underneath, they’ve done it when it’s really clean (thinking possibly a reflection thing) and also when it’s dirty. They’ve done it when it’s sunny as well as when it’s been damp and dull.

Went to the garage and they weren’t interested. I. Can’t cover the whole car as they would still get under it to do it as it’s right at the bottom of the car. I can’t park my car anywhere else.

Any crow experts? Anything that can deter them?? Iv been banging on the widow each time I see them do it and they do fly off but of course come back every day. They like pecking on my front lawn so obviously have a food source there too!

@Bluebluered wait til you find out what a ducks penis looks like!! LOL 😂

Bluebluered Google 'duck sex'
No the males don't fertilise the eggs after they are laid, they are covered in a hard shell. You are thinking of frogs and toads.
Male birds have awkward sex with the females. The females store the sperm inside and use it to fertilise the eggs as they develop internally. As they pass through their body, they get coated in calcium, then they are laid.
If they cant find a male or run out of sperm, they carry on laying eggs, as long as it is laying season.

I used to go out with a bloke who's job was to fertilise turkeys and it put me right off kissing him.

I have just googled duck penis and typed in fuck penis. The results were NOT PLEASANT

But a duck penis is very funny. New fact to throw out at parties

"They have dead ends they can try to send the males down if they don't want to have their ducklings."

Why don't we have this!

Can you try putting food down to distract them see if that works?

Crows have got excellent memories have will remember faces for decades and tell their friends about them too - for humans they both like and dislike.

Maybe another car in the same model has upset these particular ones before?!?!

I need to google this when the kids are asleep 😂. I don’t want to bring up weird pages.

invisible I had the exact same car in the exact same model until March this year!

I don’t know if I want to start feeding them... they are always eating stuff off the lawn, bugs presumably so I don’t believe me feeding them would distract it as they eat from the lawn and then attack the car!

a few post it notes over the area

JUST googled the duck’s penis. I’m shocked and disgusted. I’m having a quiet moment now to contemplate what I saw.

Even in the middle of this thread, I am going to sound a bit insane, but here goes anyway...

You need a CD which makes crows go away. We have used it - they used to play football on the flat roof of our bedroom at 4am - and it works.

this is it

You do need to follow the instructions - use a hidden bluetooth speaker and never in the same place - but after a couple of weeks we got rid of them.

You could email corvid isle ( a corvid charity ) and ask their advice .
I think it is the shine on the car probably, so a tarp might be the best solution.

*JUST googled the duck’s penis. I’m shocked and disgusted.

JUST googled the duck’s penis. I’m shocked and disgusted

Why would you be disgusted?

onsen
I clicked on the link and saw that there are two types of CD. I understand the crow-repelling sound, but why would anyone need a crow-attracting sound?

at those who didn't know birds have sex.

My cockatiel likes to rub his willy on his branch, he even does a sex face

Why would you be disgusted?

🙄 because I have my own thoughts about things, which may not be the same as yours.

That Crow Be Gone is $20! There are free versions on Youtube, its the sound of predators like owls and buzzards.
Theres several for rats and mice as well.

I've witnessed more bird sex than I would have liked this spring. Pigeons take nanoseconds. Seagulls go on longer than DH.

Get some magpies OP. They're even harder than crows.

The birds and the bees. But mainly the pigeons.

Maybe they think it attacked and ate your old car, which being black, was a giant, quiet, crow mate of theirs, and now this silent, giant, evil, bastard crow has moved in to take his place, so they’re out for revenge?

Well there might be some truth in that, as they can be very disturbed by black things, eg a binbag, something that looks like a dead corvid.
Most probably it is just more reflective than most cars. Black cars are particularly shiny.

Crows have got excellent memories have will remember faces for decades and tell their friends about them too - for humans they both like and dislike

This is true. Last summer I looked after a poorly, Young crow which was kept in the garden in an aviary. Successfully released when old enough. We'd never really had crows before in the garden but when this crow was in the aviary the word got around and crows lined up on the house roof and the outbuildings and weren't happy. And would shriek at me....I guess for being a crow kidnapper.

Its still going on nearly a year since the crow left! I step out the house and crows are noisily yelling at me. Hubby comes out and they ignore him.

Wow what a thread . Who knew crows held grudges??