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Bird flying into my window

mjgcarpentermjgcarpenter Member Posts: 245 ✭✭✭
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
I have a Robin that has been trying to get into my house thru a window for about 4 hrs. now. I go out and scare it away and it comes back shortly. Anyone ever have these problem??....Don't want to shoot it but its becoming annoying...........
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would suggest that it is seeing it's reflection. And attempting to fight off a supposed rival in it's territory.
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 8,945 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What a bird brain!
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  • RadarRadar Member Posts: 2,309 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a problem with a male bluebird fighting my mirror on the truck,but it will stop when the female gets to setting on the nest.
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  • wlfmn323wlfmn323 Member Posts: 4,712
    edited November -1
    it will stop eventually, had a cardinal do that to our kitchen window when i was younger, i guess it knocked its brains out because we found it dead just under the window. but it stopped.

    now for folklore and legend. my great grandmother used to say that if a bird flew into your window it meant that someone you know is gonna die.

    dont think there is much to that one, no one we knew past away around that time, let alone that year.
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  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    Put her nest back outside.
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  • PTHEIMPTHEIM Member Posts: 3,374
    edited November -1
    You shouldn't have had her eggs for breakfast. [:o)][}:)][:0]
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  • sigarmsp226sigarmsp226 Member Posts: 2,458 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Go to your local hardware store and buy a blow up OWL... Hang it outside the window by a piece of string allowing it to move with the wind, the bird will leave. If they do not have a blow up OWL buy a solid unit and place it on a pole in front of the window, the same height as the center of the window. I have used this process several times and suggested it 8-10 times and ever time it has worked. $ 4.00 will fix this problem....Mark
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  • D1D1 Member Posts: 11,412
    edited November -1
    At our hunt club there is a mockingbird that will sit on your truck door at the rear view mirror and lightly peck it's reflection. If you park at the Bethany Tag Board. It has been there every season for three years.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Take a bar of soap and "soap" the windows where you are having a problem. As soon as the bird cannot clearly see his reflection,problem will be over.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511
    edited November -1
    Had a caridinal bang repeatedly into a window until he died.

    Me and a 12 gauge re-arranged his priorities. .

    Reckon it was a sign that something was gong to die.
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  • D1D1 Member Posts: 11,412
    edited November -1
    Most cardinals are maroons.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511
    edited November -1
    That one was a seriously dead maroon!
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  • westernMDhunterwesternMDhunter Member Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get on your roof and take your fishing pole with you. Dangle a nightcrawler on a number 8 hook in front of the window, set your drag loose and when he grabs the worm free spool your line to let em' swallow the hook and worm while flying away with it's catch, then let the battle begin.
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by westernMDhunter
    Get on your roof and take your fishing pole with you. Dangle a nightcrawler on a number 8 hook in front of the window, set your drag loose and when he grabs the worm free spool your line to let em' swallow the hook and worm while flying away with it's catch, then let the battle begin.
    I've done that...it's not a good idea[;)]
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  • westernMDhunterwesternMDhunter Member Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by reloader44mag
    quote:Originally posted by westernMDhunter
    Get on your roof and take your fishing pole with you. Dangle a nightcrawler on a number 8 hook in front of the window, set your drag loose and when he grabs the worm free spool your line to let em' swallow the hook and worm while flying away with it's catch, then let the battle begin.
    I've done that...it's not a good idea[;)]


    Oops forgot to tie yourself off to the peak of the roof with rope so you don't fall off. OSHA mandated.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511
    edited November -1
    Be my luck the last of the California Condors would nail it.
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  • wittynbearwittynbear Member Posts: 4,518
    edited November -1
    Might want to see if someone in the family is pregnant. My grandfather used to say that if a bird is tapping on your window that it means someone is pregnant. I guess its an old cherokee wise tail but I'll be damned if he wasn't right.
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  • mjgcarpentermjgcarpenter Member Posts: 245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wife is actually pregant. It started today at daybreak again. I might try the owl trick or some spread shot.
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  • quickmajikquickmajik Member Posts: 15,576 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got a sparrow bouncing off my kitchen window atleast three times a day. He smacks into it pretty good.


    Had a cardinal that would flog and peck a mirror on my suburban, it would light on it, look down into it and peck itself. It left little orange smears on the glass.
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  • GUNFUNCOGUNFUNCO Member Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can see it now...


    "How did you know your wife was pregnant?"

    "A little birdie told me."


    And if that isn't bad enough.....


    And where do you buy a blow up owl?

    At the owl porno shop!
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  • wittynbearwittynbear Member Posts: 4,518
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mjgcarpenter
    My wife is actually pregant. It started today at daybreak again. I might try the owl trick or some spread shot.
    He is just letting you know, he will go on about his business shortly. Just don't let him get inside thats really bad.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    I have large bay windows. Robins and black birds seem to like bashing their brains out on them. I pick up at least one dead bird a day.[}:)]
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  • Bubba Jr.Bubba Jr. Member Posts: 8,301 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My daughter was telling me about a cardinal that was attacking their patio doors every 5-10 minutes, every day for 3 weeks. Then his mate started to join him and between the two of them the racket was almost constant. They tried shiny aluminum pans, owls, and spraying them with water, but that only drove them around to the front windows. Finally my SIL took his bb gun out and after about 1000 rounds the problem went away. Well actually their cat found the carcasses.[:D]

    Had to have been d*mb *ss liberal birds looking for a free handout.[:D][:D][:D]
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