Swamphunter Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Ok guys...got a question for ya. For the past three mornings I have had a young robin trying to get into the house by continually flying into our windows. Its hitting the screen and the glass, and does it over and over and over, for hours. What the heck is it trying to do? I have let my dog out to scare it off, and have also yelled at it through the window as it approached the screen, and it just flies off for about 15 minutes and starts again. By mid day though, it stops. Two questions 1) Why 2) What should I do to get it to stop.... PM's accepted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerforged Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Ken - any chance the bird can see its reflection in the window in the morning hours? If so, it is trying to attack what it thinks is another bird in its territory. I finally had to put a non reflective shade on my east side windows to stop this. I had Cardinals, Robins, and Mockingbirds doing the same thing. By noon the sun had risen enough that they could no longer see their reflection in the windows and they moved on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 i have a theory that in all of animal life, some are born retarded and/or not capable of leading the life of others of it's specie. maybe this is one of those cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Eventually it will probably kill itself Ken. Ross or Steve's ideas both make sense and go right along with what I would have thought too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Print and Tape Passive Aggresive Robin Deterent System:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 It's fighting with its reflection. Territorial thing. I had a bluebird fight with the rearview mirror on my truck for a week or so a few years back. Have Blane draw a really big picture of a Cooper's Hawk and tape it up in your window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doog3 Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 we had a bird do that a few yrs ago on our bedroom window, i checked around and found out it was cause it saw it reflection in the window and ws trying to fight with the bird in the window ,so I was told to put up a blackout material on the window so it couldn't see it reflection anymore , so we put that up and it worked it left no more tapping on the window when it got light lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 I'd have to take him out, that sounds annoying! Get one of those sticky traps for mice and put it where he's flying, but that's not a PETA approved method I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Eventually it will probably kill itself Ken. Ross or Steve's ideas both make sense and go right along with what I would have thought too. Yeah, I'll have to say ditto to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Have Blane draw a really big picture of a Cooper's Hawk and tape it up in your window. Yep...those would work...LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunt or be Hunted Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 yepp what it is it see his reflection in the window so it go's after it thinking its a bird, we have that happen all the time here. Jeremy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Back in one of our old appartments we had a blackbird doing the same thing. Couldn't figure it out for the life of us. Thought maybe it had flew in and started a nest while we were away. Partially right. Only when we closed the window would it do this, when it was open he would fly to his nest across from it under the neighbors eve which I'm assuming was reflected back to him causing the confusion. you may do well to take a look around a bit. I reckon that's where the saying "bird brain" came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 At my cousins one day years ago, a blue jay kept hitting the big picture window so hard he cracked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 When i was in 8th grade, we had a drake mallard do that...smashed the heck out of the wired glass during my morning algebra class...scared the crap out of us and killed itself in the process...only took one try too... I only see birds do this in the spring time, so i think it has something to do with the mating season... you could always test out the ole Red Rider... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggs Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 No joke...I have the same exact problem. A robin is flying into our sliding glass door off the basement walkout. It's annoying in more ways than one, but my wife has to constantly clean it becaue all you see are muddy robin beak and claw marks on the glass. I have NO CLUE what this thing wants (besides maybe a concussion) but I want to make this stop...too bad I no longer have the pellet gun I used to have when I was young. Matter of fact, many-o robin fell victim to that gun, maybe this is their idea of payback?? Anyway, I'd say a pellet gun is the quickest problem solver...I just need to get one soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted May 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 Thanks guys.. this dang bird is doing this on two sides of the house though, and is making a nest under my pool deck. I hav reservations about that also as I wonder if when having babies in there.. if it will be even more territorial with my kids in the pool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierbuck Posted May 13, 2009 Report Share Posted May 13, 2009 I have one doing that in a semi-circular window above the front door, and since I have a ledge there, I put small stuffed animals every 8" along that ledge, and it has more or less ceased. Nutty things. HB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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