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by Bill Wallmuller
It is said that there is “nothing new under the sun”. I don’t know if what I am about to tell you is true in all cases. I think our experience is unique….maybe? If there are any bird lovers reading this article, maybe they could let me know if our experience is unique or not.
One spring several years ago at sunrise, we woke up to hear someone or something throwing something against the glass in the rear sliding door leading out to our patio. The bumping against the glass seemed to continue every minute or so. I decided to get out of bed and see what might be going on.
Well, low and behold, I discovered a big old robin red breast flying around in circles and every circle or two he would dive head on into the pane of glass in the sliding door. My wife came down to see what was happening. We both found this as a bit amusing only because the robin seemed not to be hurt or affected by his kamikaze like runs into the door glass.
This went on for several weeks about the same time each day.
A couple of days had gone by when I noticed dripping down the driver’s door from the left front side mirror on my Ford Taurus station wagon what appeared to be a quite large stream of dried on bird droppings.
Day after day the amount of the droppings seemed to be increasing exponentially. It was getting to be very annoying. So the next weekend I found a place in the yard from where I could keep an eye on my car [it’s too bad I didn’t have a birdie cam] and discover who the culprit was. I was keeping alert for a half our or so when the culprit made his appearance.
I was dumb founded. It was the same big old robin red breast that had been diving into our rear sliding glass door. Was he trying to single us out on purpose by his seemingly intentional actions? It sure seemed so. I tried to scare him away, but as my luck would have it, his odd behavior continued on into early summer. Based on the amount of droppings that collected on my driver’s door under the mirror head this must have been the only place this bird used to take care of his business. No matter what we tried doing he would not change his behavior.
Finally summer was over and fall was soon upon us. Our crazy robin was gone, probably migrating south for the colder months. We were relieved that our putting up with that robin had come to an end. If he survived the winter, this bull headed revengeful robin would be entertaining or bothering [depending on your point of view] a new house and new home owner come next spring.
Not our luck….. This bull-headed bird has returned to our home each spring for several years now since first showing up. I know it’s the same crazy bird. It has the very same routine with flying into the glass in the rear sliding doors and continues to perch on my mirror head on the old Ford with his flood of droppings running down the outside of my driver’s door.
I keep asking myself if this is normal behavior for a robin to return to the exact same place each and every spring or is it only this same old robin vengefully trying to be our worst enemy? If anyone knows an answer to this, please let me know.
By the way, does anyone know the type of a song bird that visits and chirps his little song that sounds almost exactly like the beginning of the theme song for the old Bonanza TV show??? About The Author: Bill Wallmuller, Merokee Enterprises and always an animal lover. The newest Websites authored by Merokee are Personal Defense Technology and http://www.surveillance-equipment-technology.com
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/freebird4/402217558/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65687061@N00/480571944/
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It is said that there is “nothing new under the sun”. I don’t know if what I am about to tell you is true in all cases. I think our experience is unique….maybe? If there are any bird lovers reading this article, maybe they could let me know if our experience is unique or not.
One spring several years ago at sunrise, we woke up to hear someone or something throwing something against the glass in the rear sliding door leading out to our patio. The bumping against the glass seemed to continue every minute or so. I decided to get out of bed and see what might be going on.
Well, low and behold, I discovered a big old robin red breast flying around in circles and every circle or two he would dive head on into the pane of glass in the sliding door. My wife came down to see what was happening. We both found this as a bit amusing only because the robin seemed not to be hurt or affected by his kamikaze like runs into the door glass.
This went on for several weeks about the same time each day.
A couple of days had gone by when I noticed dripping down the driver’s door from the left front side mirror on my Ford Taurus station wagon what appeared to be a quite large stream of dried on bird droppings.
Day after day the amount of the droppings seemed to be increasing exponentially. It was getting to be very annoying. So the next weekend I found a place in the yard from where I could keep an eye on my car [it’s too bad I didn’t have a birdie cam] and discover who the culprit was. I was keeping alert for a half our or so when the culprit made his appearance.
I was dumb founded. It was the same big old robin red breast that had been diving into our rear sliding glass door. Was he trying to single us out on purpose by his seemingly intentional actions? It sure seemed so. I tried to scare him away, but as my luck would have it, his odd behavior continued on into early summer. Based on the amount of droppings that collected on my driver’s door under the mirror head this must have been the only place this bird used to take care of his business. No matter what we tried doing he would not change his behavior.
Finally summer was over and fall was soon upon us. Our crazy robin was gone, probably migrating south for the colder months. We were relieved that our putting up with that robin had come to an end. If he survived the winter, this bull headed revengeful robin would be entertaining or bothering [depending on your point of view] a new house and new home owner come next spring.
Not our luck….. This bull-headed bird has returned to our home each spring for several years now since first showing up. I know it’s the same crazy bird. It has the very same routine with flying into the glass in the rear sliding doors and continues to perch on my mirror head on the old Ford with his flood of droppings running down the outside of my driver’s door.
I keep asking myself if this is normal behavior for a robin to return to the exact same place each and every spring or is it only this same old robin vengefully trying to be our worst enemy? If anyone knows an answer to this, please let me know.
By the way, does anyone know the type of a song bird that visits and chirps his little song that sounds almost exactly like the beginning of the theme song for the old Bonanza TV show??? About The Author: Bill Wallmuller, Merokee Enterprises and always an animal lover. The newest Websites authored by Merokee are Personal Defense Technology and http://www.surveillance-equipment-technology.com
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/65687061@N00/480571944/
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