[yankeedame]

This has absolutely nothing to do with what you were talking about but husband is a car salesman and the dealership had one car that was always getting pooped on by passing birds -- esp. geese. I don't mean a drop here and a drop there. I mean, **PLOP**, **PLOP**, **PLOP** cream-corn-from-the-sky stuff.

Turns out that a certain silvery/white colored car parked right along the birds fly-way. The sun glinted off the car's surface. The birds -- esp. the geese -- got startled en mass and bombs away.

[pepperdog]

I once had a blue-gray car that was a special target for birds. I couldn't believe it when, one day, I walked into the parking lot where approximately 7,000 cars were parked and only MY CAR was covered with bird poop. It was really strange.