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If you experience a bird pecking and scratching at your window, patio door, doorknobs, shiny car bumper... etc., what is actually happening in most cases is that a bird is seeing its image in the reflective surface, it takes it for a rival and tries to drive the other bird off.
These attacks are most common in spring when nesting and mating occurs but can be caused by a dominant bird claiming the food supply at your feeder. Unlike a real bird, which will normally retreat from aggressive behavior, the rival in the glass appears to fight back as often as it is attacked. Birds have no ability to reason or to comprehend the concept of reflection.
Some readers may recall the male cardinal mentioned in a past article “attacking” the patio door in my Flint Hill backyard. The cardinal thinks its own reflection is a rival and he has no choice but to attack it until it leaves.
Unfortunately, the cardinal in my
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