Environment Bird attacking windows

[Inferno]

So I've had a wattlebird attacking my bedroom window on and off for four years now around about breeding season (i.e. now). This time it's been especially bad and will start attacking it all day from dawn to dusk. The glass is tinted so it would be even more reflective I guess.

I've tried putting plastic snakes on the window sill but one it figured them out it just knocks them off. I'm pretty over either having to sleep in the spare room or being woken up before 6am every morning.

Anyway, any thoughts on what to do to make it stop? I'm well and truly ready to go down the 'kill the thing in the most brutal fashion possible' road right about now because I'm that sick of it, but one which would just make it stop would work too.

 

[neroblack]

Position this bad boy nearby - http://www.bunnings.com.au/28cm-harold-hoot-pest-deterrent_p3040751

 

[Inferno]

neroblack have you tried one and they've worked?

 

[knife]

I've had a similar experience with a blackbird tapping on my window at 6am and printed out two pictures of cats, one snarling and one looking ready to pounce. I stuck them on the window and to my suprise it actually worked and I haven't had an issue since.
Good luck, my latest problem is getting a possum to stop acting as an alarm clock in my wall at 5am.

 

[neroblack]

neroblack have you tried one and they've worked?

Yeh got one on my back deck to stop birds from hanging around and crapping on everything. Does the trick - different kinds of birds but still worth a go from the sound of things.

 

[courtjester]

Maybe just hang some bird netting over the window? The bird wont risk getting stuck in it.

 

[darcytiger]

Air rifle. Leave the pile of birds under the window, the rest will get the picture

 

[UmpiringFooty]

Close your curtains

 

[Dan Moody]

 

[tigers_of_old_08]

Position this bad boy nearby - http://www.bunnings.com.au/28cm-harold-hoot-pest-deterrent_p3040751

LOL @ "bad boy", I tried Harold Hoot with my annoying possum problem and they simply made friends with him. Now they just say 'hello' to him as they walk past.

 

[tigers_of_old_08]

Edit. Just came across this:

Bird Netting. You can use bird netting to drape the grape vines with a special net developed to keep out birds. Although bird netting give some sort of protection, it is not fool proof. Draping the netting over grape vines is a time consuming job and no mechanical manipulations (like mechanical harvesting) can be done before the netting is removed again.

Visual repellents. We see grape growers use shiny streamers and other shiny and fluttering objects like small mirrors hanging from strings, to repel birds, but as with the gas guns, birds acclimate to these objects quickly. Some grape growers stretch plastic strings over the vineyard and these strings will vibrate in the wind and make a low irritation sound that could repel unwanted birds.

http://djsgrowers.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/bird-control.html

 

[neroblack]

LOL @ "bad boy", I tried Harold Hoot with my annoying possum problem and they simply made friends with him. Now they just say 'hello' to him as they walk past.

Haha I'm not sure they're aimed at possums!

 

[Pie eyed]

LOL @ "bad boy", I tried Harold Hoot with my annoying possum problem and they simply made friends with him. Now they just say 'hello' to him as they walk past.

Hahah.
Same .
The missus bought one to scare possums, the possums used it for all night sex parties....

 

[worbod]

I looked at this thread title and thought "there's a joke here about a feathered creature criticising Microsoft's graphical operating systems", but I just couldn't word it properly.