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From: ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast)
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: Re: curious behavior
Message-ID: <403@ho95b.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 12:17:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 12:17:03 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 8-May-85 00:45:36 EDT
Organization: AT&T-Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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>For the past two weeks a female cardinal continues to try to fly
>through one of our kitchen windows.
> ...
>Do any of you have any ideas what may be causing this curious
>behavior?

Is there by any chance a mirror on the wall opposite the window?
I remember when I was 6, a pair of goldfinches kamikazeed on
our picture window.  With the mirror behind, all they saw
was "outdoors".

A possible solution:  Make a life-size tracing of a hawk
or similar bird in black construction paper and paste it
on your window.  Just the silhouette should keep most birds
away.
-- 

". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch."
Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95b!ran)
AT&T-Bell Labs