Thanks! Nothing I've bought and tried so far has worked-at least one Pine Siskin was killed a two weeks and there are window strikes every day as panicked feeder birds flee passing accipiters. Once I heard a thump on the window, quickly followed by a glass-shaking crash. I looked up in time to see the underside of a Sharp-shinned Hawk peeling off the glass. I ran to the window, but he flew away.

I did read about the ribbons on another bird site and tried that. I put some up and the birds ignored them. Maybe that was because all I had at the time was white and that's what I put up. Maybe I should have gone with another color. The advice about the wind chimes got me to thinking. I have a wind chime inside the patio door. The glass in it is blue and when the sun hits it, it sparkles. Do you think that would attract the birds? Maybe I should move it. I never thought of that when I put it up. Guess I'll have to check and see if birds are attracted to certain colors. Thanks for the advice.

Kate, I just had to come back to this post to let you know about what I have just seen.Last week, I drove to pick up my son from wrestling practice at about 5:15pm. Near his school, there are large empty fields. Two days in a row, as I drove past those fields, there was a VERY large flock of some sort of "black looking" birds (it was getting dark) which was feeding in the fields, and they were flying up all over the road in front of my van. I was worried that I was going to hit one of them. I finally got a good look at them, and lo and behold, they were ROBINS!!!!! I just had to tell you. I have never seen such a huge flock of Robins in my entire life. Now, I think you saw Robins. :o) Angie

Our Robins usually show up around the end of January, early February. What they find to eat with all that snow on the ground makes me scratch my head. Saw one today hopping along the edge of the sidewalk probably looking for any worms dislodged by the heavy, wet, melting snow. Hope he had some luck. I once saw a sting of birds like that, thought they were never ending, but it didn't last for hours, more like 15 minutes. Your sighting must have been impressive!