Is this something to worry about or what? Yesterday, DW complained about a small brownish bird with a yellow crown first hitting and then "tapping" at our RV's rear windows. Well, folks it's morning and it's back. According to what's shown on the net looks like maybe it's a 'wee' yellow crown kinglet.It, along with another are feeding on the ground seeds of our next door friends garden and using our RV windows in attempts to - heaven knows what; i.e. break our windows. Call out to birders - should we just disregard this or better still - maybe find a way to prevent their attempts to hurt themselves?:@

Happened to us several times - we tried hanging newspaper over the windows - plastic bags etc - nothing really worked

The birds see them selves in the window.. We hear a loud thump occasionally at our house front door where a bird flies into the outside glass door and does him in...Don't know what one could do to prevent this...Roy Ken

Cover the outside so he can't see his reflection.

Ductape wrote:Cover the outside so he can't see his reflection.x2 A few years ago we had a cardinal that would sit on the edge of my Suburban outside mirror and peck away at it. Didn't do any damage, but the saliva (or whatever it was) was sticky and had to be cleaned off repeatedly. Nothing short of killing it (I didn't want to do that) would stop it except for covering up the mirror when not in use.As others have said, he is seeing his reflection in the mirror. A friend who has a bird hobby said that it was mating season and the bird saw the reflection as another male that was a competitor. So the bird is "fighting" him to chase him away. Don't know how true this is but it seems to fit the scenario.Steve

Shotgun! Neighbor did it when Robins got drunk on pyrocanthia berries. :)

Birds tapping at rear RV windows . . . advise please.

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Roy_Lynne
Explorer
Jun 07, 2015
We were camped in early spring at Alta Lake SP in Washington State and while we were having lunch outside at the table, we noticed these tiny birds going into our refrigerator vent with straw. They were building a nest in there and we quickly discouraged that little idea with some newspaper, but they were not happy and thought they had found a great place to raise their young.
TechWriter
Explorer
Jun 07, 2015
Run!
Oldme
Explorer
Jun 07, 2015
Oasisbob wrote:
No worries, just a great photo opportunity

x2
seaeagle2
Explorer
Jun 07, 2015
He's in lust and see a rival that no matter how much he pecks just won't go away. My wife had a little bird that would attack her passenger side rear view mirror for hours on end, she covered it with a wash cloth and problem went away.
3oaks
Explorer
Jun 07, 2015
bluie5 wrote:
My Mom hangs a rubber snake over her porch light on her house. It scares away the birds and keeps them from building a nest there. She also hides the snakes in her hanging flower baskets because the birds liked to build nests there as well. Maybe a rubber snake draped over the window will help.
I don't know about the birds, but that would keep my wife away. :B
Dannyabear1
Explorer
Jun 07, 2015
Plastic snakes sold at walmart, place on bumper, ladder or something close by; I have this problem every year at home and this is only solution I found that works.
bluie5
Explorer
Jun 07, 2015
My Mom hangs a rubber snake over her porch light on her house. It scares away the birds and keeps them from building a nest there. She also hides the snakes in her hanging flower baskets because the birds liked to build nests there as well. Maybe a rubber snake draped over the window will help.
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Jun 07, 2015
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary over some quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore . Suddenly there came a tapping as if someone gently rapping, rapping, upon my chamber (camper) door. Quote the raven, nevermore.

Or, something like that.
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Jun 07, 2015
Islandman wrote:
Hang a picture of a cat on the window, maybe that will discourage them

:B
jplante4
Explorer II
Jun 07, 2015
A guy at the airport had this issue with his tube-and-rag plane. Birds pretty much destroyed it. After having it recovered, it started up again. He called the Audubon Society and they said the birds liked the sound of the pecking. He had no choice but to hangar the plane.

If this is the case, them hanging foam rubber should fix the problem.

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