Mentally Challenged Robin?

[Phil McCracken]

So about a week ago, the wife comes to me to advise a robin has been pecking on a basement window at the house. I say to myself...."Sure". When scared away, it would come back and do the same thing.

So I check the window in question. On the right glass pane, one could see several marks, kinda like round white spots. On a rock in front of the window... covered in bird schitt. Hmmmmm....maybe she hasn't gone bizarro...

So around supper time, we are in the kitchen and I hear this banging noise from the window, which is located under the kitchen window. I open the door and see this robin give me a "F You" look, and flew away.

So the wife has an idea. She has a fake owl in the backyard. She figured by placing it in front of the window, same would keep idiot stick away. So she does. About an hour later, bing bing bing bing....I check it out and idiot stick is standing on the owl's head doing his thing. She now has to clean her owl as it has schitt on top of its head. It is driving her nuts....I personally am really enjoying all of this.

On a bit of a serious note, I must say, I have never seen a robin behave this away. I'm sure he'll eventually move on. Sure his pecker cannot handle all this banging. It has been around a week now.

Had a pile of rain here yesterday, and still raining this morning. That little bastard presently sitting on top of a spruce tree nearby, soaking wet. I'm sure he will perform again soon...

True story and thought I'd share while most are enjoying their morning coffee...

[Strix]

Give the little guy a break. He is just seeing his own reflection in the window and thinks it is another male robin intruding on his territory. Cover up the window for a couple of days with a piece of plywood or something so he can't see his reflection and everything will be fine.

[ghfalls]

I had one doing that on our bedroom window for a few days this week too. There’s a female nesting under our deck. I think he was looking for love and thought his reflection was his competition. He burst into feathers on Thursday morning at about 5.

[creeky]

Originally Posted by Phil McCracken

So about a week ago, the wife comes to me to advise a robin has been pecking on a basement window at the house. I say to myself...."Sure". When scared away, it would come back and do the same thing.

So I check the window in question. On the right glass pane, one could see several marks, kinda like round white spots. On a rock in front of the window... covered in bird schitt. Hmmmmm....maybe she hasn't gone bizarro...

So around supper time, we are in the kitchen and I hear this banging noise from the window, which is located under the kitchen window. I open the door and see this robin give me a "F You" look, and flew away.

So the wife has an idea. She has a fake owl in the backyard. She figured by placing it in front of the window, same would keep idiot stick away. So she does. About an hour later, bing bing bing bing....I check it out and idiot stick is standing on the owl's head doing his thing. She now has to clean her owl as it has schitt on top of its head. It is driving her nuts....I personally am really enjoying all of this.

On a bit of a serious note, I must say, I have never seen a robin behave this away. I'm sure he'll eventually move on. Sure his pecker cannot handle all this banging. It has been around a week now.

Had a pile of rain here yesterday, and still raining this morning. That little bastard presently sitting on top of a spruce tree nearby, soaking wet. I'm sure he will perform again soon...

True story and thought I'd share while most are enjoying their morning coffee...

Neighbour across from us was away & had the same thing happen 2 yrs ago, little guy sure made a mess all over the lower porch. Must have had one heck of a headache!


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[58thecat]

That sucker has the virus...affects birds differently.?

But then again just look at us....one out of a thousand or so is odd....

[Dean2]

Originally Posted by Strix

Give the little guy a break. He is just seeing his own reflection in the window and thinks it is another male robin intruding on his territory. Cover up the window for a couple of days with a piece of plywood or something so he can't see his reflection and everything will be fine.

True but it can get old fast. We had one that was going after a bunch of the windows on the house and he kept it up for well over a month. Persistent little SOB. I am not covering up all my windows just to make a Robin happy. If my wife wasn't so fond of Robins I would have dealt with it continually attacking the windows by flying into them feet first. Makes a hell of a racket and it started just after sunup and would go on intermittently till about noon when the sun got to the other side of the house. Luckily the little Twerp hasn't shown up yet this year.

[CNP]

When I lived in southern ON a lifetime ago we had a beautiful orange cardinal do the same thing.........but it went on for years.

Every morn at 0500, on our bedroom window, it would tap the glass with it's beak. Got quite irritating lol. I'm certain it was the same cardinal year after year. Didn't shed a tear when it didn't come back one spring.

I also believe it's a reaction to seeing themselves in the glass?

[Positrac]

Two words...

Pellet gun

[Zip-in-Z]

No one shoots a Robin, bad carma for your entire life & everyone in your gene pool.

Two years ago we had a young Robin that kept flying into our back entrance Garden Door the one's with the squares, it thought it could make it through & into the house, nothing but Robin beak marks, beak slime & feathers stuck to the glass, it figured it out after 2-3 days.

Not my pic's but we have a Pinto Robin hanging around Sylvan this spring, never seen anything like it before ... thought it would be worth sharing.

With 50-60 mm rain, the Robins are having a worm feast today.

Cheers

D.









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[kevinhits]

Had the same issue and we bought stick on birds for the window. They worked ok.

[Howard Hutchinson]

Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z

No one shoots a Robin, bad carma for your entire life & everyone in your gene pool.

Two years ago we had a young Robin that kept flying into our back entrance Garden Door the one's with the squares, it thought it could make it through & into the house, nothing but Robin beak marks, beak slime & feathers stuck to the glass, it figured it out after 2-3 days.

Not my pic's but we have a Pinto Robin hanging around Sylvan this spring, never seen anything like it before ... thought it would be worth sharing.

With 50-60 mm rain, the Robins are having a worm feast today.

Cheers

D.









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Crazy looking Robin there?? Awesome little fella!

[Zip-in-Z]

Originally Posted by Howard Hutchinson

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Crazy looking Robin there?? Awesome little fella!

Agreed ... it's a Pinto or Albino ... if there is such a thing.

D.

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by Positrac

Two words...

Pellet gun

That would be a Federal Offense.

Grizz

[Positrac]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

That would be a Federal Offense.

Grizz

So true...what was I ever thinking...?🙈🙉🙊

[Dean2]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

That would be a Federal Offense.

Grizz

Well, since Federal is already so offensive, not sure I would be too worried about offending Federal.

[Map Maker]

Bird brains.
I was out for a walk last week and had a group of geese flying toward me. One came in so close, I had to get in a defensive stance. It swerved at last minute when it knew I wasn’t goin to. Then it landed right in front of me and it’s eyes were all googly looking. No fear right now in a birds brain.
Thanks for the pic of the half albino robin. That is neat.

[lyallpeder]

Originally Posted by Zip-in-Z

[SIZE="3"] Not my pic's but we have a Pinto Robin hanging around Sylvan this spring, never seen anything like it before ... thought it would be worth sharing.

We have a ghost magpie living on our block. Apparently Edmonton has the largest number of them. He has a partner every year but never has any ghost magpie children. As interesting as he is man I hate those things.

[CaberTosser]

Chris O'Donnell? Or Burt Ward?

[270person]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

That would be a Federal Offense.

Grizz

As in requires one Federal 17gr traveling 2550fps.

Peck that jackarse.

[sk270]

I thought I'd seen a variety of opinions on the Covid-19 threads. Now there's a thread on killing crows to protect songbirds and some guys here who want to shoot songbirds. Like they say, there's nowt so ***** as folk. 😂

Apparently this website will not allow an old Yorkshire saying. Substitute "odd" for the q word that was bleeped out. I must say that I object to this perversion of the English language. Second edit: or insert "reeuq" backwards.

[Positrac]

I hear Robins taste like really really little Cornish game hens. The only downside is it takes a few dozen to make a meal...

[pikeman06]

Good gawd. Now we're shooting Robins? You rot in hell for that. That's what my mom told me anyways, so I never shot one. She told me that because it's been illegal for a hundred years.

[Strix]

[QUOTE=Zip-in-Z;4174291]Agreed ... it's a Pinto or Albino ... if there is such a thing.

D. [/QUOTE

I believe that is a condition called "leucism". The bird is "leucistic".
See: https://www.audubon.org/news/why-bird-half-white

[barbless]

Not a Robin story but I think there are other bird brains out there. Got woken up camping in a tent many years ago by a ting ting ting ting ting ting noise. Looked out the door of the tent and there was a woody wood pecker on the hood of my car doing the peck peck peck thing for about 10 min. I laughed and rolled over.
Cool pic of the pinto bird

[bezzola]

Put the choke in your 12 and take care of business

[barbless]

Would rather just hand choke the little ducker sucker pucker