Bird bouncing off the window?
 

I keep getting those black and white squaky birds thumping themselves off my window. They sit on the fence between my house and next doors and fly between the two boucing their feet off the window - anybody know why?

Kareena

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

They are territorial and sometimes around breeding time, they see their reflection in the window and attack it:)

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

Ah, thank you!! That would explain it!!

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

A lot of people put that trellis stuff in front of windows which have a reflection so as to stop the birds cracking the glass. They're buggars those birds but only doing what's natural I suppose.

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

Magpie larks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie-lark

The scariest thing is when they attack your driving mirrors while you are parked at traffic lights - there is one total nutter who attacks cars exiting one of our Civic car parks.

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

When we first put our tinted windows in, we had birds smashing into the windows every couple of weeks. It's the reflection.

But once we put blinds in, the birds could see that it wasn't sky, so they stopped braining themselves on our windows.

Now we just have 2 plovers who reckon they own our garden and attack up when we go out.

JTL

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

have the kids stuck breadcrumbs to the windows.:rofl:

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

Hmm, that is the sort of thing my boys would do!!

Just checked, we're okay! The crumbs are on the inside from where my little one has wiped his hands while watching the bird!

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

We have kookaburras that are the thickest birds out: they will sit on the birdbath looking at their reflection, take off and fly straight into the window, fall to the ground, get back on the birdbath for a couple of minutes - and do the same thing over and over again.

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

:lol:

Re: Bird bouncing off the window?
 

no but i have the same problem lol