HELP NEEDED. Crazy crow relentlessly attacking our house. Tried everything!

crazy_crow

I was hoping someone can come up with a way to stop a very very persistant crow from attacking our house. We have tried everything we can think of. He has been attacking every morning for the last three weeks. He often hurts himself and leave blood all over the windows. :eek::eek::eek::eek: Sometimes he even knocks himself right out. (Although I am not feeling that sympathetic if I am honest) He either flies at the window or pecks at them until we disturb him.

We have painted, covered and netted most of the downstairs windows but as soon as we barricade one area he moves to another. Today, he started attacking the porch at the front of the house having previously only attacked the back of the house. I have not heard many crows in previous years but this year there seems to be millions of them. We have lots of magpies and Redkites. I have also tried decals. He seems timid of humans and flies away as soon as he is disturbed. I understand why he does it but I would welcome any advice as to how to stop him and also as to whether we can expect him, or his friends to do it in future years. I would also like to know if people have any idea as to whether he will attack the upstairs windows as he hasn't yet done this.

We live in Oxfordshire in a residential area about a mile from open fields.

I plan on never cleaning my windows again.:mad:
Grateful for any advice

stevemcol

Get an Air Rifle

James_Lahey

Do you have any Kia-ora in the house?

Daisy70

Ring the RSPB?

stevemcol

James_Lahey wrote: »

Do you have any Kia-ora in the house?

too orangey

googler

Post this in a more specialised forum, such as those at

www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk

for a possibly more-informed reply....

ryder72

Had the same problem myself. The crow attacks its reflection on the window. Put in a large image of a prey bird in the window and it should stop. Worked for me.

dacouch

You need a crowbar

ladymarmalade222

Oh dear I read the title as:

HELP NEEDED. Crazy cow relentlessly attacking our house. Tried everything

and could not understand all the talk about birds:rotfl:

anotherbaldrick

So did I must be catching !

muckybutt

ladymarmalade222 wrote: »

Oh dear I read the title as:

HELP NEEDED. Crazy cow relentlessly attacking our house. Tried everything

and could not understand all the talk about birds:rotfl:

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

So did I must be catching !

Phew im not the only one that read it as crazy cow :rotfl:

Crows can be shot as they are classed as pests, we're troubled with them regularly being out in the sticks but they have now got wise to me shooting their friends and dont seem to hang around much now. They are quite intelligent birds, if they see you setting up a hide ready to shoot them they'll stay away, however if two of you go into the hide then a while later one of you leaves they'll come back down thinking you have gone....then pop pop pop crow pie