Roberta

Last week the Baltimore Oriole was fighting with his reflection in the window. I put in the screen and he stopped because his reflection was no longer there. This morning there are a male and female Bluebird sitting on the AC in the window and fighting with the reflection.

Has anyone had this problem and how did you solve it. They are actually scratching the window with their "attacks".

Tartan

Tape a large picture of a cat to the window? Put one of owl sculpture on a stick outside the window but that will scare off all the birds I think.

butterfly48

We had the same thing one time and we streched fishing line across the window. Our window had clips to hold the storm panel so we used those to hold it. It did help some they were at the bedroom window and were waking us up.

Doggramma

Oh dear. I hope you can get it stopped. Earlier this Spring there was a robin that thumped against the garage window for a good week or more. I didn't do anything about it because the window is up really high.

quiltingcandy

We had a woodpecker that was hitting a metal drain pipe for about a week and a half. It was not in an area we could get to, and it drove us crazy because it started very early in the morning.

Jan in VA

1. Tape a piece of paper - a magazine page, newspaper, post-it notes - on the OUTSIDE of the window during the spring mating season. The reflection of themselves causes birds to believe they are fighting off other birds from their territory. Taping onto the OUTSIDE of the window eliminates reflection, whereas taping onto the inside of the window does not.

2. Or....Hang pieces of silvery ribbon streamers from the top of the window (OUTSIDE, again) where they can twist in the breeze and scare off the birds. (Might even help with flies, a bonus!)

3. Or....if you don't want either of these, try smearing soap on the outside of the window to dull the reflections. Of course, you'll have to repeat the soap application every time it rains during the spring.

Good luck!

Jan in VA

Jingle

They some times fly into a window, sometimes they don't survive it. I feel bad but don't know how to stop it. Doesn't happen real often.
I get tired of them being attracted to the chrome on my side mirrors on my truck and relieving themselves on it and the side of the driver's door.

ladydukes

I had a robin trying to fly into my patio door and another one trying to fly into my spare bedroom window. I thought perhaps it thought the sweater I had lying on the bed that had beads on it were attracting it because they looked like seeds. At first, I thought it was cute, then I noticed how much it had pooped on my chairs in the process - and it wasn't cute any more! Last year, we had a problem with flickers. They are like woodpeckers. They kept pecking just below the eaves of our house into the stucco. I kept trying to run them off, scare them off, etc. It was impossible. They pecked several holes in our stucco. I was frantic! I read online that they don't like hot pepper taste, so we soaked cloths in jalapeno juice and stuck it in the holes until we could get the stucco repaired this Spring. Repair costs were nearly $1,000. Praise the Lord, we haven't seen any this year, so I'm hoping they've decided not to return. Consequently, if you see flickers or woodpeckers, run them off because they can do extreme damage to your home.

piepatch

Jingle, I once had a problem with cardinals flying into my rear view mirrors on my car, and making quite a mess! I got two brown paper sacks and slipped over the mirrors when the car was not in use. I removed the sacks a couple of weeks later, and the birds never returned.

Stitchit123

I went to the Dollar Tree store and bought small wind chimes. I added fishing string to bring them down to the middle of each window the birds could see their reflections in. The tinkling of the chimes got them moving and not one was hurt.