My neighbors have the oddest thing going on - robins, it seems, are trying to mate with the

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dianem

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neighbor's front window and the mirrors on their vehicles. They peck incessantly at the window (one window in particular) or perch on the mirrors. No one else on the street has this problem and it has been going on for about a week. Messy AND loud, especially at 4:00 AM. Any experience with this?

 
We had red birds do this on an upstairs bedroom window

and the poor birds killed themselves. We assumed they were seeing their reflection in the window. Sad, isn't it?

 
I would try covering the window and mirrors with something to see if

they will stop. Perhaps a sheet tacked up over the window and golf club covers over the mirrors for a few days?

My SIL had a falcon fly right though her kitchen window - YIKES!

 
The resident evil cat got my little nest of wrens today...

I'm so sad. They were just starting to be all perky and cheepy, even Siegfried von Puppy started watching them. They were tucked into a too low arborvitae off the patio. I get so upset with them letting their cat run loose in the neighborhood, always digging up peoples gardens and planters, killing birds...

 
my philosophy on that is that...

just because my neighbors find it to be their first amendment right to enter their cat into the predator chain in my yard doesn't mean that it's my first amendment right to see that it isn't at the top.

 
But Rick, maybe the cats would chase your rabbits away! :eek:)

Just kidding, of course... unwanted animals of any kind are a pain if they do damage of any kind. Cats, loose dogs, rabbits, peacocks ;o), etc.

 
I'm with rvb on this one. When my dog did his...

...'business' outside, he did it in MY yard, not my neighbor's yard.

My neighbor's cat doesn't show the same awareness or decency.

Michael

 
I just had to rpint this out and.....

give it to a woman I work with. She hooted....she had been telling us last year that her car and home windows were a total mess, from robins hanging around, flying into the windows, perching on her car mirrors and pecking at them incessantly, and doing their dirty thing all over both house and auto.
She tried tying the plastic bags that grocery stores use all over her car and around house windows, but that only lasted so long.
She siad that they have returned again this year. She's at her wit's end. So I will pass along any wisdom that you folks can provide.

 
Must be Spring in the air. The neighbor's young male Peacock is infatuated with our female dog

and chases her all over the place. He comes to visit- he is quite tame- but overstays his welcome. It is kind of funny to see the pursuit but after a while it gets old and we just take him home.

Also, we have wild chickens- lots of them- that we feed once a day. Another neighbor's dog has killed off many of the baby chicks and it is an ongoing problem. Our dog has been trained not to kill birds. I'm with rvb.

 
That settles it. A trip to Hawaii is definately in my future Anywhere that has pet peacocks...

has got to be good. How exotic!

 
A tip that a local college has (years ago, anyway) was to tape...

up a silhouette (or two) of a large hawk in any window that you wanted to prevent smaller birds from flying into... seemed to work.

This was suggested by the ornithology professor of the biology department at Oswego State College. It was right on Lake Ontario, and I guess they used to get a lot of birds tyring to fly into the window to get to the other side (they could see the water through the windows). And I never saw another dead bird after that!

 
Michael, I hear ya...

my dog goes in my yard. period. When we go on a walk, we go on a walk and not on a tour of my neighbors landscaping. I have a beautiful 6 ft. weeping cypress that is dying fast because nearly every body that walks a dog past my house thinks it's their god given right to walk 15 feet into my yard to let their dog urinate on my tree. I actually had an argument with a woman who was standing in the middle of one of my flower beds with her dog. She didn't understand what "my problem" was, nor that she was doing anything wrong, as she stood in my flower bed.

rvb, oh I have thought about altering that food chain cycle in my yard many a times.

 
There's one sure-fire way to keep the neighborhood cats out of your yard...

Get a cat! You can put a bell on his collar to alert the birds.

If your yard is the only one on the block without a cat, it becomes neutral territory for every cat in the neighborhood.

Somehow I don't think I'm dealing with cat people here, so a water hose is the next best thing.

 
My sweetie wants to rig up our irrigation system to a switch so he can flip on

one particular zone next to the sidewalk (downside to a corner lot) where people walk their dogs and let them do their business. Apparently it really makes a mess when he mows the lawn!!

 
Now that makes me all nostalgic...

for the town I went to school at in Austria. The local hunting palace had an ostentation of peacocks roaming the grounds. It was hilarious watching (and listening!) to them. And there were always lots of feathers to pick up to decorate dorm rooms with!

 
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