"Bizarre"Small bird attacking patio door.....?

[CRA1G]

For the last 48 hours a small bird looks like a Robin.? Has constantly been flying into our patio doors.?or just sits on the door handels.?cleaned up some dropings yesterday and now there back again.?. It just has not left the house.?.any ideas.? It,s quite Bazare..........!

[bexVN]

I wonder if it's seeing it's reflection and thinking it could be a potential mate?! Maybe it's own mate is missing, who knows, bit weird.

Try putting something on the inside of the window (paper, cloth) near the handle where it's perching and see if that stops him/her.

Edited by bexVN on Thursday 31st May 09:07

[Liszt]

He's trying to drive off a rival, which is actually his reflection.

[bexVN]

Liszt said:

He's trying to drive off a rival, which is actually his reflection.

Thst'd make sense,esp if it is a Robin as they are very territorial.

[ali_kat]

Sounds like he sees the reflections as a rival. Very funny to watch

We put paper up to stop the reflection.

[BlackVanDyke]

See also what happens when a peacock has the same problem, but the reflection is in a car door...

[omgus]

BlackVanDyke said:

See also what happens when a peacock has the same problem, but the reflection is in a car door...

Yep, Peacocks get very territorial.

We used to have one at an old workplace of mine and the favourite game was to nick someones keys and to lob it into "his" area of the car park.

[CRA1G]

Well it's three days now and this little bird won't give up....? It's not just the patio windows it's all the windows to the rear of the house.....? Every few minutes it flys into the glass or sits on the patio door handle's it really is Bazare.........!

[swiftpete]

It's not really bizarre as you've been told why it's doing it and how to stop it..

[wiggy001]

CRA1G said:

For the last 48 hours a small bird looks like a Robin.? Has constantly been flying into our patio doors.?or just sits on the door handels.?cleaned up some dropings yesterday and now there back again.?. It just has not left the house.?.any ideas.? It,s quite Bazare..........!

it's a small bird that might be a robin flying into your patio doors. hth.

[BlackVanDyke]

Just tape some newspaper up or something (on the outside) to remove the reflection for a day or 2.