<p>Ok, for the past 2 days I’ve been watching the same dumb bird repeatedly trying to figure out how to get into my family room. It’s a beautiful blue bird w/ an orange breast, and goes repeatedly from window to window in my family room and living room, trying to fly into the glass transoms above the french doors that go outside. It has been quite entertaining for me and the 2 cats (today, he’s been perching on the doorknobs, too), but I can’t quite figure out what to do about him. God knows that the glass is filthy (i.e. not like the bird can’t tell that’s it’s there)…and there’s not enough space on the sill to build a nest. Gives me a good excuse to sit on the couch with the laptop and CC, I guess. 
any ideas?</p>
<p>windchimes?</p>
<p>A bird feeder at some distance from your windows?</p>
<p>The cats don’t scare him off?</p>
<p>Let the cats outside.</p>
<p>Sounds like a bluebird. Perhaps you could put out a birdhouse made for bluebirds? It sounds like it is looking for a place to build a nest.</p>
<p>Other suggestion: Call the nearest Audubon center. They should have some ideas.</p>
<p>Windchimes—got 'em. Bird feeder, down on the ground, all full for him. Got a couple of birdhouses, I should look to see what bluebirds like (and actually find out what kind of bird he is). We’ve got 2 inside cats and at least 2 of the neighbor’s outside cats are over at our house anyway…doesn’t seem to phase him. We live in the woods; eventually he’ll figure out that my family room just isn’t going to work out to get into to build his nest, I guess. I’m just hoping to avoid bird guts on the window if he gets too determined.</p>
<p>Send him to a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>Maybe he’s trying to deliver a message? Just a thought…</p>
<p>Bluebirds prefer meal worms to seed. Keep this in mind if you want it to go to a feeder. It sounds like a bluebird, with the orange and white breast.</p>
<p>You can temporarily put up window “cling ons” which may or may not alert the bird to the fact that he can’t get through the window. I have the same problem in my kitchen. Kamikaze birds are constantly flying full speed into the house. Someone suggested this as a remedy to me, but I haven’t tried it out yet!</p>
<p>I have that same bird at my house, only my bird “knocks” on the window repeatedly! I tied a CD to dental floss and let it spin round and round. The bird doesn’t knock at my window anymore. I kind of miss it.</p>
<p>We had a similar problem with bluebirds. Our neighbor put up a bluebird house in his yard and then the bluebirds became his problem. :)</p>
<p>Send them here! Conservation groups here are putting up bluebird boxes in whatever few fields remain to get them BACK. They’ve actually had decent luck so far.</p>
<p>As for your bird, what about one of those realistic yet cheesey-looking fake owls perched somewhere nearby?</p>
<p>We had that problem and ended up calling one of the wildlife organizations to ask what to do. They suggested hanging CDs outside the window, as JustaMom said. It worked.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll get the kids out after school to put up some CDs. (They’ll probably suggest a few from my collection, haha). Maybe buying the neighbor a bluebird house is a good plan. I love the birds–we have a million with beautiful songs (obviously I don’t know much about birds), but the pecking on the window is getting old.</p>
<p>Bluebirds prefer fairly low birdhouses (4-6’ high). As cavity nesters, they’re quite comfy in a reasonably sized box (5"x5" floor, 9-12" high). The hole should be around 1.5" wide and placed 6-10" above the floor- if starlings can get in, they’ll eat the babies. I would use a thin metal pole or add a metal guard around the post to deter snakes, which unfortunately view bluebirds as tasty. :(</p>
<p>From your description, it sounds like you have a male. As much fluttering around as he’s doing, he’s probably trying to find a good nesting spot and/or attract a female. You may get more; bluebirds breed twice a year.</p>
<p>Post a stuffed owl out there in plain sight.</p>
<p>In our old house every year we would have what looked like the same bird come and spend his day flying from the chaise lounge to our bedroom window. We finally did put up some removable stick on black bird decals. It worked pretty well. We have also used the blow up and plastic owls. With those we found we had to move them around because they would eventually figure out that they were fake. I also know that pinwheels also sometimes work or hang shiny ribbon.
What we have now aside from a morning chorus of birds is a persistant one who loves to peck at the flashing on the chimney. The sound carries down the fireplace into the house including my bedroom. We have tried everything. He eventually goes away but comes back every year.
We have so many birds in our yard and we don’t even have a feeder. When people from the “city” come to visit they complain they can’t sleep.</p>
<p>Another reason to dislike starlings…!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.audubon.org/educate/expert/window.html[/url]”>http://www.audubon.org/educate/expert/window.html</a></p>
<p>Sounds like he may be trying to chase away that strange male he sees in your windows!!</p>
<p>I know they are breeding now (at least here in NC) as my bluebird houses have new nests and the “couples” seem busy going in and out of the houses.</p>
<p>Thanks for the post. I’m in NC, too, and the heating/air conditioning guy confirmed that he’s doing some mating “stuff”. Can I send this poor misguided guy your way? Two of the windows are up pretty high and the ones that he pecks at don’t have blinds, so there you go. My windows are so dirty that I’m amazed that he can see his reflection in them…</p>