Crow attacking windows

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For the last couple of days my house has been under attack from a crow! It’s (I’m assuming it’s the same one) going round the house banging on different windows with its beak and cawing loudly. Any ideas on how to stop it? I don’t want it hurting itself or damaging my windows..

Can it see its reflection in the window? Might think it’s attacking another crow? I’d sellotape some paper on the bottom bit of the window for a week and try to break the habit.

ILs had this. Usually at 5am which work you up with a start! I think they are defending their territory from their reflection. You can put something on the outside of the window e.g. paper, netting (we trapped it in the window opening to make it easier to remove). If this disturbs the reflection the crow will hopefully stop and forget about it after a while.

It thinks it's reflection is a crow. Put pieces of paper up on the windows to break the reflections

Maybe the crow is sick and needs help. Have a closer look.

Crows are very intelligent and remember faces or whether you've been kind to them or not. So have you upset this crow in any way? 😁

Also the collective noun is a murder of crows!

Get crow repellent tape. It's like reflective bunting stuff. It will put them off. It often happens this time of year when the young birds start going out and strutting their stuff.

Oh I feel your pain. We had a blackbird constantly banging our windows for 5 WEEKS earlier in the spring.
We tried everything, paper covering windows, bird scarers, tape. The mess it left on the windows and sills was disgusting and the noise very nearly sent us loopy.
Just as I was googling a permanent way to get rid of it (ahem) it stopped as soon as it started.
It didn’t like it when we banged the windows though, maybe that finally saw it off…?

I'd put a few scraps of food on the window sill.

I have this a lot and recently bought some plastic owls and a buzzard that sit in my window. This seems to deter them, although I do have to move them around a bit when the crow attacks from another side of the house

They do this to my car and occasionally the windows, it is maddening.

Blackbirds are very territorial. The one here has had the place to itself for months so now I’m here it’s seen me as a threat. It’s settled down now but for a few weeks it was flying past me brushing my hair, not too aggressively but enough to show its dominance. I think the sultanas won him round.

We are getting some much of this this of this year with ut would do oae . Its evert wear .Bloody hell its every wear ,

We have this same problem with a pheasant and it happens every year. It is the reflection and the territory thing. We’ve also had it with a magpie before.

I have definitely not done anything to the crow to make it hate me 😂. I suspect it is a territorial thing - I’ll try disrupting the reflection and see if that helps 🤞

Haha mint

The crow knows something you don’t. Heed its warning.

The average crow is more intelligent than a 4 year old child.

It probably just wants to get in and watch telly.

Could it be trying to warn you, or alert you to something ?

We have a variety of corvids here, and occasionally they go barmy with cawing - enough to make you look outside. At which point they calm down. I often wonder if I have scared off a cat that may have been lurking in the undergrowth.

Either that or it's the magpie equivalent of knock-down-ginger 😀

My Mums had the same it’s mating season and will see its reflection and think it’s another bird.

Bird scared tape seems to be doing the trick for now. I’d left one window on that side without tape as a control and that’s the only one it’s attacking. On the plus side the kitten thinks it’s fascinating!

Scarer.. not scared

It is not one of the Dulwich Posse is it?!

Please tell about the Dulwich posse!

I had this happen this morning for the first time, it’s interesting to hear that it’s a common thing.

It’s nesting season and they are defending territory from their reflection. Had one did this to two windows. Shut the curtains(doesn’t necessarily stop reflection) and we put strips of kitchen foil caught in the side of the window when it was shut to wave about in the wind. Worked for us. And less messing than sticking things to the window