Please help, an enormous black crow keeps pecking our patio windows...

[tassisssss]

...and you can hear it in the whole house!

It woke me up this morning (I was convinced someone was outside knocking to get in).

Any suggestions?

This?

have you seen the film 'failure to launch' ?
that might give you some ideas

lol attila
A couple of old cds hung on a bit of string so that they can move in the wind might help

put a flag or something out of a window above, the movement will scare it (maybe)

Ewww, a crow landed on my head when I was walking to school one day. Thought it was going to do an 'omen' on me!! Shudder.

God, we had this 2 yeras ago on our loft windows. It wa sonly very early too.
(Except the one day that dd1 was uo there on her own in the agtternoon and one landed then - she was terrified).
We hung a cd in the windiw and it stopped.
Haven't had them since.

(Now have starlings in the eaves instead to make funny noises)

thanks all

talk me through the hanging of CDs thing (being dense!)

so far we've made a barricade of patio furniture/play stuff but that's not working!

it's doing my head in

They do this on the allotments near where we live. They just string some cds together (a short distance apart like fairylights) - sometimes several on a string that just hangs vertically and sometimes a few on a string thats strung accross from one end of their patch to the other. Apparently it works. the shiny surface catches the sun as it moves and frightens the birds.