A bluebird with attitude
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325653)
Rockingham, Australia
November 17, 2018 6:18pm CST
We have fairy wrens that enjoy bathing the bird bath that sits in the garden in front of the window where I sit at my computer. One has taken to feuding with his image in the window. In the process he drops little bits of poo all along the window sill. I’m sure he is trying to join up the dots. He does this at most of the windows in the house. He must think he has a lot of competition for ‘best fairy wren’.
This only happens if the curtain is closed to stop the glare in my eyes. I have started to give the curtain a flap to scare him away but he comes back almost immediately. But I haven’t seen him since I put my ‘bluebird with attitude’ ornament on the sill. If he stays off the sill, I have several other bird ornaments that I might put on the other window sills. I wonder how long this will deter him. Somehow I don’t think it will be a permanent solution. And sorry about the quality of the image.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Nov 18
Ours never got that close to the window as the dog would try and chase them off.
Hope the remedy works for you though.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
18 Nov 18
@JudyEv
Oh dear.
Is he still fighting with his image in the window then?
If our dog was there he would soon fly away real quick.
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@JudyEv (325653)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Nov 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 He doesn't seem to be doing it quite so often.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
18 Nov 18
does sound quite a vain little wren
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
18 Nov 18
@JudyEv a bit like government officials
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@JudyEv (325653)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Nov 18
@arthurchappell Exactly like them I'd say! 
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
18 Nov 18
I get birds on the railing of my deck but I have never seen one on the window sill, I am not sure I would want the bird poo on my sill either lol
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
18 Nov 18
@JudyEv Oh yikes yes, we have blackbirds so big here I worry they could carry off my little dogs.
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@JudyEv (325653)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Nov 18
@BelleStarr Our wedge-tail eagles have been known to carry off small dogs.
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@dgobucks226 (34348)
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19 Nov 18
Those ornaments kind of act like a scarecrow as the bluebird's fine feathered friends can attest 
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@dgobucks226 (34348)
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20 Nov 18
@JudyEv Yes Judy, I'd go along with that.... At least you have a pretty bluebird as a friend.
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@GardenGerty (157545)
• United States
18 Nov 18
I have been told to hang holographic streamers to deter the birds that fight with the windows. For us it is usually cardinals.
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@JudyEv (325653)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Nov 18
I think the wren has got over his fear of my ornament. He is back again.
@allknowing (130066)
• India
19 Nov 18
Oh those droppings could always be cleaned I would let the bird sit on our window sill This cuckoo spent hours perched on one of our fans in the hall.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Nov 18
The blue wren has "adopted" you.
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@wolfgirl569 (95079)
• Marion, Ohio
18 Nov 18
Glad it is helping for now. Thats why I dont have bird feeders at all
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@JudyEv (325653)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Nov 18
It's not too big a deal. We don't have bird feeders as there is no need but the bird baths are well used, even in winter.
@1creekgirl (40506)
• United States
18 Nov 18
Maybe the fake birdie will deter him.
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