Mr.
Irene and I have had a house visitor for the last few weeks. A red-winged
blackbird decided that a rival lives on the other side of our porch windows.
The blackbird struts and puffs along the deck railings, posturing and squawking
at his imagined threat. Occasionally, he pecks at the glass; sometimes
he rams into it. A friend of ours—not someone in the vicinity—concurrently
is experiencing the same problem. It's a misery that her blackbird has imagined
its combatant in a bedroom window. We searched for solutions to the problem.
Nothing has worked perfectly to dissuade the blackbird. He started returning to
the battle site less often, however, after Mr. Irene hung strips of aluminum
foil on the windows. Here's a group of
blackbirds in our yard chasing off real threats—hawks:
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