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5/4/2016 10:28:17 AM EDT
There's this bluebird that flies into my window.  He keeps bumping into it, backs off and tries again.  Why this erratic behavior?  Aren't birds supposed to want to be outside and away from humans?
5/4/2016 10:29:11 AM EDT
[#1]
It's usually a self correcting issue.
5/4/2016 10:30:13 AM EDT
[#2]
Fighting his reflection.

I had a papa cardinal that would fight himself in my car's side mirror. It would take him about 45 to wear out and call it quits.

Every. Single. Day.

5/4/2016 10:30:39 AM EDT
[#3]
He sees a rival male in his reflection. Cut out the outline of a raptor, not the Jurassic Park kind, from dark paper and tape it up.


ETA: the Jurassic Park kind might work as well
5/4/2016 10:31:21 AM EDT
[#4]
Once breeding season is over, they usually quit that shit.
5/4/2016 10:31:40 AM EDT
[#5]
He is attacking his own reflection in the glass.

I have had a cardinal doing that every day for a month.
5/10/2016 8:41:12 PM EDT
[#6]
Thanks guys.  Got two right now.  So, I guess that's two pairs of battling males.  
5/10/2016 9:02:21 PM EDT
[#7]
Put a profile of a small hawk flying in your windows.
5/10/2016 9:27:38 PM EDT
[#8]
I had a male bluebird doing that to the passenger side mirror of my truck a few years ago, it went on or days. Damn thing shit all over my mirror and side of my truck. It was quite comical really!!!
5/10/2016 9:33:09 PM EDT
[#9]


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Fighting his reflection.





I had a papa cardinal that would fight himself in my car's side mirror. It would take him about 45 to wear out and call it quits.





Every. Single. Day.





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Had one too, spittle all over the mirror and poop down the door. Glad he migrated or died.
 
5/10/2016 9:52:07 PM EDT
[#10]
We had a summer tanager do that all last spring. It got blood all over the windows. It must have gotten laid or ate.