A mad crow!

[michael23]

for the last couple of weeks now, we have been woken by a carrion crow that likes to keep flying into our kitchen window! this is no accident either, it perches on a post and keeps on doing it! but as soon as i approach the windo upstairs, it flys off! this is certainly the weirdest bird behaviour i have ever seen!
anyone noticed this strange behaviour?

[MichaelF]

It sees its reflection in the window, thinks it is another crow invading its territory, and then attacks it to chase it away.

[michael23]

its strannge how none of the other birds that frequent the front of my house dont do it,
crows must be more territorial!

[Colin Key]

This is "Corvid spongiform encephalopathy" - "Mad Crow Disease".

Colin :laugh:

[freddiej]

its strannge how none of the other birds that frequent the front of my house dont do it,
crows must be more territorial!
I think crows ARE more territorial....see granny's tale and the expulsion of 'George' from his birthplace. His parents were viscious with him....:cry: For other reasons (garden reflection I imagine) I have to keep an almost permanent 'hospital' for kamikaze birds who fly joyfully into my windows and knock themselves out. Solution: to apply 'stickers' to the windows mostly all year round....which makes cleaning them extremely complicated....but better than dead birds!