This is the second robin hatching of the summer on our deck. We are all getting along pretty well. The birds born earlier in the summer are camping out in our front yard, and screech a lot when we go out there. The mother of these birds doesn’t seem particularly afraid when we are on the deck, and often joins us when we sit out at night. The father is another story, being, as he was earlier, a very nervous fellow who is happiest digging for worms in the garden.
Does anyone else have a “mad robin”? A male robin who just sits in a tree and flies at his own reflection in the window pane. I’ve tried everything, tinsel, window stickers, fake owls, chasing him away, nothing deters him. What’s even worse, it’s been going on for about ten years which means, by my reckoning, there has been more than one generation of robin doing this!!
This is the second robin hatching of the summer on our deck. We are all getting along pretty well. The birds born earlier in the summer are camping out in our front yard, and screech a lot when we go out there. The mother of these birds doesn’t seem particularly afraid when we are on the deck, and often joins us when we sit out at night. The father is another story, being, as he was earlier, a very nervous fellow who is happiest digging for worms in the garden.
Does anyone else have a “mad robin”? A male robin who just sits in a tree and flies at his own reflection in the window pane. I’ve tried everything, tinsel, window stickers, fake owls, chasing him away, nothing deters him. What’s even worse, it’s been going on for about ten years which means, by my reckoning, there has been more than one generation of robin doing this!!
Be glad it isn’t a wild turkey, which will do the same thing with shiny cars — to devastating effect. Can’t stand to see his rival.