[texbirds] Re: Bird Behavior question
- From: Susan Yost <sdyost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mscott7bird@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:43:31 -0600
This usually is a behavior of males, but females do it occasionally. As
mentioned in other responses, you need to block the reflection. Wild Birds
Unlimited has removable decals for the outside of the windows. There is one
specifically for this problem. Sometimes they stop on their own.
Sue YOST ~^/^~
Highland Village
Denton County
On Jan 16, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Jeff Scott (Redacted sender "jmscott7bird@xxxxxxx"
for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We've got a ninja female cardinal that appears to be a few bricks shy of a
> full load. She is currently sitting outside my home office window where I
> have planted some wax myrtles. For the last 20/30 minutes she has been
> making her way to the top of the plant (about half way up the window) and
> then launches herself into the window panes. We've observed this behavior at
> other windows around the house. Every now and then she'll take a breather
> for a few minutes to clear her head before starting up again.
>
> The window is divided into 6 rows of panes, 3 panes per row, with each
> individual pane around 10"w x 16"h. We haven't observed her trying to fly
> into the lower half of the window which is screened. Oops - she just
> did......
>
> Just curious if anyone else has observed this type of behavior. Einstein's
> quote about insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
> different results" comes to mind.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Scott
> Argyle
> Denton County
>
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