Hi, bit of an odd one but we recently moved house, and have a local pheasant who likes to walk around the vRS and peck at its front bumper just in front of the wheel arch! It's covered in small scratches that rub out but am worried that the plastic will eventually give in and be permanently marked! Anyone got any ideas, other than hurry me up to clear the garage out?

Edited 18 May, 201115 yr by IndianaBlues

Agree ^

However, they are not in season at the moment!

Just make that the pheasant is not close to the car when you use this, else you may find more scratches...

When you come to cooking the Pheasant do so in a caserole dish to keep it nice and moist!

Oh and don't shoot it from too close or there will not be anything worth eating left!

On a more serious note. I don't think there is a lot you can do. Using a shotgun is not really an option unless you have one and a suitable environment for letting it off. Maybe try to make it scared of youre garden...Boot a football at it.

You must have an especially industrious pheasant there. Round my way they stand in the middle of the road waiting for the cars to bring the front bumper to them.

I wonder if the previous owners used to feed it, as it keeps coming to the back door as well and tapping on it...

The problem is the car is too shiny! The pheasant sees its reflection and thinks its another pheasant invading its space. Answer: Don't clean below pheasant height

We have a very effective weapon - Peanut the monster ginger cat. Get yourself one of them and it comes with the added bonus of stopping other cats sh1t1ng in your garden !!!

You don't need a licence for an air-rifle and you've only got one pellet to pick out when you eat the bugger.

As said it's probably attacking its reflection, they really are the stupidest animals alive. A cat would work or borrow a dog.

Maybe put a blanket over the front of the car or buy one of those imitation owls.

Getting the dam thing without shooting it, keep an eye on where it goes as its getting dark they like to roost in trees (hint)

Get a high powered torch and a large fishing net once dark go to the tree then turn on torch bird will not move once in spot light place net over and remove

Either wring neck to eat after hanging it upside down for a week, or take it for a ride in a box and release it at your mother in laws house

Getting the dam thing without shooting it, keep an eye on where it goes as its getting dark they like to roost in trees (hint)

Get a high powered torch and a large fishing net once dark go to the tree then turn on torch bird will not move once in spot light place net over and remove

Either wring neck to eat after hanging it upside down for a week, or take it for a ride in a box and release it at your mother in laws house

Very tempting...but the MiL is in the States I'll try to dull the reflective surfaces a bit...

On a more serious note. I don't think there is a lot you can do. Using a shotgun is not really an option unless you have one and a suitable environment for letting it off. Maybe try to make it scared of youre garden...Boot a football at it.

Hahaha 'serious note', boot a football at it!!! Brilliant!!

I'll try to dull the reflective surfaces a bit...

Sounds like the pheasant is already doing a pretty good job!

Execution is probably the only option! If you can't bring yourself to do it contact the local council environmental vermin control department (or whatever they call themselves)- they will either finish it off or remove it to a more suitable location. Tell them you are worried about transmission of bird flu to your kids

Had similar problems with peacocks when I moved here 8 years ago. There were 8 or 9 of them strutting around that was very nice at first until I found them walking along the garage roof, leaping off the end (they don't fly very well!), using SWMBO's car roof as an intermediate landing pad, scrabbling for grip before sliding down the windscreen, onto the bonnet and onto the ground. Not funny when you watch a mother and 4 near full grown chicks do this in line astern! They regularly attacked their reflection but mainly in black cars so that didn't affect me.

I borrowed a high powered water gun (the pump up variety) to discourage them from coming in the garden but peacocks make goldfish look like Mr Memory Man! It didn't discourage them for long.

Eventually they were creating such a nuisance (car damage, noise and enormous amounts of **** left in porches where they spent the night - that was the "killer" as there was the big bird flu scare at the time) that the council had them rounded up and shipped off to a more suitable location.