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- From: jeff@cray.com (Jeffrey P. Anderson)
- Subject: My feathered friend
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.165806.16214@equalizer.cray.com>
- Organization: Cray Research Superservers Inc., San Diego CA USA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:58:06 GMT
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- Any bird psychologists out there?
-
- There is a bird which comes to my house every morning to pick a fight
- with its reflection in a window. I figured it would eventually tire
- of beating itself up, but it has been about six months now. I am
- tired of waking up at dawn on weekends from the noise made by the
- little monster smashing against the window.
-
- I am an ecologically sensitive person, and really would like to find a
- solution short of destroying it. On the other hand, I'm losing
- patience. I have tried everything from stuffed animals to remote
- control vehicles, including remote-control vehicles carrying stuffed
- animals; if the bird sees something unusual at a window, he just
- progresses to a different window. I cannot hang blankets on the
- outside of all the windows since the homeowner's association would
- execute me, even if I had that many blankets.
-
- I believe it is a male and thinks it is guarding its harem; when he is
- doing his thing, several similar-looking birds are cruising the yard
- for food. The bird looks like a robin in size and shape but it is
- simply grey in color.
-
- Help!
- --
- Jeffrey P. Anderson KD6GMJ jeff@cray.com
- Cray Research Superservers, Inc San Diego, CA
-