<p>It is day 9 of an aggressive robin trying to get at the “other bird” in my dining room window. He has hit his head so often surely his coach should have benched him, but every morning, 7 AM, he’s back - hitting his head and pooping on my porch and bench. I’ve hung up pictures of cats and human faces, added Mardi Gras beads on rubber bands so they would swing…and still he returns.</p>
<p>Short of an outdoor cat, any suggestions?</p>
<p>A plastic, toy snake.</p>
<p>its mating season- two robins dive bombed H in his garage.
It scared the crap out of everyone.
;)</p>
<p>Get one of those hawk silhouette decals and put it on the window.</p>
<p>You might try a shiny tape that reflects lots of sunlight during daylight hours.</p>
<p>A friend of mine used a sharpie to draw a face on a balloon to scare off some birds. If you can tie it to something outside it’ll bobble around and hopefully repel him.</p>
<p>we used to have a lot of toy snakes from when S was Persesus and carried around Medusa’s head…couldn’t find any tonight so used an old purple boa ( not mine) …already have the mardi gras beads which are shiny and jiggly…</p>
<p>I’ll update after 7 am CDT</p>
<p>I walked into a mirror once thinking it was a doorway. I only did it once though. It hurt.</p>
<p>ok. so we know you are smarter than my robin…my dh laughed tonight at the sight of our porch decor…</p>
<p>LOL! I bet your neighbors would be curious about your porch decor!</p>
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<p>We were having the same type of issues with a Mockingbird. Banging our windows and using our cars as outhouses. Went and got a large plastic owl statue, moved it a litle bit every day or two.</p>
<p>Haven’t seen the mockingbird for weeks now. Our cars are much happier.</p>
<p>for the record, despite the same family name, MemphisGuy and memphismom are not related.</p>
<p>the swaying in the breeze purple boa and shiny mardi gras beads seem to have worked…perhaps the Robin just realized Mardi Gras is over, it’s Lent and decided to stop partying…</p>
<p>The neighbor’s garage window was getting the same kind of attention from a female cardinal one year. The trick is to take away the reflectiveness of the window and the dark background, so they can’t see themselves. A white curtain just inside the glass should do it.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to put up curtains, tape some white paper on the inside of the window for a few days.</p>
<p>Yes, anything light and shiny that would move in the slightest breeze - a shiny plastic or foil streamer, that sort of thing. Scares away our woodpeckers, who seem to think our house is a tree…</p>
<p>Ah, robin mating season. Similar to JRZmom’s experience, dropping our window blind (duette type) during daylight hours seems to reduce reflectivity and has been a pretty successful deterrent here.</p>
<p>We had a problem with birds using some of our back door light fixtures as rest rooms. We put a windchime nearby - no more birds using our lights as rest rooms. Coincidence? IDK. Get a wind chime whose sound you like :).</p>
<p>Your d might find this decor a bit more upscale than the various plastic decoys, lol.</p>