Sparrow attack

Doug The Canuck

Doug The Canuck

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This isn't really hunting, but I feel it should be.

We have a sparrow who is incessantly attacking our windows.

Sometimes he sits in a bush neat the window and flies at the window, sometimes he sits on the window ledge and jumps up to attack the window.

This goes on day after day all day long. He has 4 windows in his routine.

Any suggestions short of shooting him?
 
Crazy string it , Saran wrap the windows, garden hoze , or ya could sprinkle pepper on its tail !( not shure if that will work haven't had any luck getting them to sit still long enough ) as others have noted it is seeing its reflection and is defending its Territory . They may be pesky but they do eat a lot of bugs !
 
Same problem here,he didn't even mind the cat watching him. The bird quit after a week and he will be here again next year doing the same thing(this is the third year in a row)
 
I have a towhee that goes after his reflection on my stainless BBQ cart and once I covered that he has now discovered the one in the shiny wood stove chimney. He's the 5am wake up call that I didn't ask for, lol.
 
Couldn't be any worser than the Woodie Wood Pecker that use to attack the furnace flew cap
at our other home.
I knew spring hazz sprung when the tap tap tap started.

It drove the Molly Dawg mad.
 
I have a noisy/ irritating sparrow (uncle) here once in a while and I just fill him with whiskey and he gets quiet after a while.
 
Many years back we had Robbins doing that same thing around the house. One kept banging on a house window the other fella the side mirror on my truck. One had bird sh!t all down the side of the house the other all down the door of my truck. After a week or so it stopped. That same year we had a woodpecker that kept banging away on the rotor of the TV aerial. He eventually gave that up as well. No rhyme nor reason to it that I could see.
 
I had a Robin that started into attacking my truck windows...then mirrors...then wind shield...scared it away a few times, then fired a warning shot over his bean with the shot gun...nothing worked and I'm not cool with bird crap covering my truck sooo...kerpung no more issues.
 
swinginberrys said:
I had a Robin that started into attacking my truck windows...then mirrors...then wind shield...scared it away a few times, then fired a warning shot over his bean with the shot gun...nothing worked and I'm not cool with bird crap covering my truck sooo...kerpung no more issues.
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Wow, did that make you feel like a real man? After that post I'd like to crap on your truck!
 
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elimsprint said:
Wow, did that make you feel like a real man? After that post I'd like to crap on your truck!
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Another PETA supporter wandered onto the wrong website! I love birds, but sometimes self defense is warranted. Have had a cardinal do the same thing on both my picture window and the mirror on my truck. Didn't resort to extreme prejudice, but might have if it was a sparrow. Have heard about robins doing the same. I have a woodpecker that wakes me in the morning by attacking the aluminum conduit on the hydro pole. Also have had them do it on an empty steel barrel.
 
Folks might want to take note that the Migratory Birds Convention Act covers virtually all songbirds, and there is no open season.

Generally the penalties are the same as that for poaching ducks and geese, etc.
 
this sparrow bit the dust in my garden last weekend.

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