i have the same thing going on. Its made a mess of my deck railing and windows. I put helium filled balloons from the dollar store outside. They bob around the window. It has helped but it is still finding other windows to flutter on. Could you close the tie of a balloon outside the window?

Does the window open if so can you open it and tape something to the outside near there? I used aluminum pie pans with a string tied to it and tacked it to the side of the house to stop a woodpecker from beating against the wall which was the wall where my headboard was. It was driving us crazy. That worked and then I removed it.

Think how the poor bird feels! Thinks he's fighting the enemy and it isn't getting him results! lol

Moonie, Ido feel sorry for the bird which is one reason I want to find a solution. These windows are situated above my kitchen sink but there are four windows and they form a "bow" or bay window. With the sink, a small counter above and behind the sink these windows are not within my reach in order to open them. I used a pair of tongs to reach the window to tape the paper on. I could try some balloons as I could just weight them on the ground and let them rise up and move in the breeze. I'll give that a try. Thanks.

It's amazing how long they will keep up that behavior. A neighbor had a robin at his bathroom window one spring that was so persistent, it went on for days. The same thing happened with a large picture window at my SILs - I lost track of how many times DH washed that window for her...bird dirt ;-) I've had small birds do it to my side mirrors on my car, these days I keep car inside, garage door closed.

Morz8, I have a solution for your problem. I had a similar situation when I didn't have a garage. I went to the $ store and bought a package of shower caps. They slip right over the mirrors and are reusable if still clean or toss them and use a new one. I think there were four plastic caps to a package.

Oh, clever Satine. I'll have to remember to make a stop at Dollar Store...

Use your printer and print a big copy of a hawk tape that in the window instead of blank paper

Can you squirt it with a hose?

I have a beautiful, very friendly Mockingbird that sits on the window airconditioner near my computer. It serenades me with many vocal songs off and on all day and I have to admit, I love it!

Raven gave you a good tip ... a large owl picture might also work.

I think you are fighting a losing battle! Years ago, we had a crazy cardinal that went to war with my old car. It was our third vehicle, so it didn't fit in the garage. It had chrome on the bottom of both doors, and the stupid bird spent all day, every day jumping from the ground to bang on the chrome strip.

Once we got rid of the car, the cardinal went to war with the big bay window in the living room. All day long, he would sit on the porch railing and fly into the window. I tried everything I could think of, and nothing stopped it. I put a long mirror on the porch, hoping he would go after the mirror instead of the window. Nope. Big ugly stuffed animal in the window...he didn't care. I guess he finally either surrendered or died--probably the latter.

Have you ever seen in some of the stores...the covering they put on their glass? It looks clear on one side and usually a picture on the other.

I would like to find out if I could buy some

I had the same problem with a bird last year. and it would be nice to be able to watch the birds without them seeing me and being scared away.

Oh great, Wanda, hearing your story. As I sit and listen to a cardinal bash away at the bedroom window. Hubby put cardboard up where he was bashing, and he just moved down the window!

I have an inflatable owl that seems to work to keep littler birds away from where I want. Check at a marine supply store - I think they are used on boats to keep the gulls away. I also have an inflatable snake that does the same thing. You have to move them around and reposition so the birds don't get used to them.

I've never heard of birds doing this and our property is wooded with tons of birds, lots of varieties including woodpeckers, robins and cardinals. We also keep up several bird feeders, depending on the bird, you may be able to distract him with seed in a bird feeder.

I had a woodpecker that took an unnatural obsession with a metal road sign in front of my house. Every spring, that bird would be out there hammering away for up to an hour or so at a time, at all hours of the day. Sometimes he started at 5 am (and woke me up, because that's EARLY and he was LOUD!). We also had a robin who liked to fight with his reflection in the window every spring too. Both birds did this every year for a few years in a row, but fortunately only in the spring. I chalked it up to something to do with breeding season. It's basically borderline obsessive behavior and I don't think any human will be able to impact it very much. :) God-love you for trying, but whatever's going on in their tiny little head seems pretty important to them.

I once had a small, red, flower pot sitting in a window. A cardinal took a fancy to it, and actually tried to feed it blackberries. When I realized what was going on, I moved the pot and the bird gave up. I wondered if he was a little confused, and thought he was feeding a potential mate.

After we moved into the current house, a gray and white pigeon came to visit, two summers in a row. I looked out one day to see it sitting on the rim of the above-ground pool, watching the kid's play in the water, and it would also sit on a cabinet on the front porch. It must have belonged to a former resident.

We should soon be under attack by a young male canary. Each spring one devotes a few days to attacking his reflection in our library window. It's always a top pane of this particular window -- north-facing, about 12 feet off the ground.

A neighbor installed 'owls' that actually 'hoot'. Woodpeckers were destroying her house.