CAR owners parking their precious set of wheels at Singapore's premier shopping destination hardly expect that they will have to visit a carwash on the way home to blast off bird poo.

Yet that is the prospect faced by those who use the open-air carpark opposite Cineleisure Orchard just off Orchard Road, at the start of Grange Road.

The prime spot in the heart of the upmarket retail district has attracted not just shoppers, but also a flock of crows that roosts in the tree tops at the carpark.

The bothersome birds shower the cars parked below with droppings.

Fed-up motorist Roy Chng, 49, a corporate planner, says: 'It's very unsightly to see bird droppings all over the car, and it's not easy to clean, especially the next day when they have hardened. It's also unhealthy.'

When Life! visited the carpark on Tuesday evening, the ground was littered with dried droppings.

Among the 50 or so cars parked there, only a handful were spared. Some of them were so heavily hit that they looked like a machine gun had splattered them.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.