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Good morning all!

Thanks for the recap Carol!

This week has proved stupidly, and unexpectedly, busy. Nothing interesting or bad... just busy!

I popped in to give Montgomery a quick dust and a cuddle. Is there anything we can do about the wool spider's Halloween decorations (if she exists)? They are getting out of hand! And her knitted winter sock stockpile in corner 6 is already growing [emoji849]
I think she was upset with me because I haven't had to use very much of the knitwear she left for me. But now that it is getting colder by you guys hopefully she will be happy again. That is if she exists. Has anybody seen the snow leopard. I have seen the carrots disappearing but not the snow leopard. Sabine where are Willy and Silly ? Do you think that the One legged Pirate has them hostage somewhere?
 

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This my view. Breakfast in the conservatory, not quite light properly, with a view of the bird feeders :)
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Hmm. What a nice scene to wake up to.
I have a question for you. I have two of those birds that I had in my picture on my walk the other day. It was the small one with the brown. Anyway these two live in my garden and every morning they keep on flying into my bedroom window. Over and over again. Why would they be doing that? Do you by any chance know?
 

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Hmm. What a nice scene to wake up to.
I have a question for you. I have two of those birds that I had in my picture on my walk the other day. It was the small one with the brown. Anyway these two live in my garden and every morning they keep on flying into my bedroom window. Over and over again. Why would they be doing that? Do you by any chance know?
It's usually one of three reasons:

The first is territory. They see their reflection in the glass and think it is more birds trying to muscle in on their territory andtry to fight them off.

The second is that they can see the reflection of a plant in the glass and think they can land on it.

And the third is that they simply can't see the glass and are trying to fly into the room.

You buy stickers shaped like hawk silhouettes that you can stick to windows and that usually stop it. Small birds won't fly toward something that is likely to eat them!

I have stickers in some of my conservatory windows which reduces the number of birds that try to fly through the glass.

We once had a Dunnock, a small bird not unlike your Cape Sparrow, that spent about a fortnight on the kitchen window ledge singing at his reflection in the window. I think he thought he could see a female, the two sexes are alike, and was trying to woo her! :D
 

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It's usually one of three reasons:

The first is territory. They see their reflection in the glass and think it is more birds trying to muscle in on their territory andtry to fight them off.

The second is that they can see the reflection of a plant in the glass and think they can land on it.

And the third is that they simply can't see the glass and are trying to fly into the room.

You buy stickers shaped like hawk silhouettes that you can stick to windows and that usually stop it. Small birds won't fly toward something that is likely to eat them!

I have stickers in some of my conservatory windows which reduces the number of birds that try to fly through the glass.

We once had a Dunnock, a small bird not unlike your Cape Sparrow, that spent about a fortnight on the kitchen window ledge singing at his reflection in the window. I think he thought he could see a female, the two sexes are alike, and was trying to woo her! :D

Ahh Okay the first reason makes sense. As they do it in the morning and as soon as I open my blinds they stop doing it. The problem is I cannot leave my blinds open while I am at work during the day, so I worry that they will carry on during the day. So I will just have to get some stickers to put on the window in question and hopefully that will stop it. As I don't want them to hurt themselves.
Thanks for the advice.
 

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I think she was upset with me because I haven't had to use very much of the knitwear she left for me. But now that it is getting colder by you guys hopefully she will be happy again. That is if she exists. Has anybody seen the snow leopard. I have seen the carrots disappearing but not the snow leopard. Sabine where are Willy and Silly ? Do you think that the One legged Pirate has them hostage somewhere?

Have you seen the jellyfish tank where Adam shut the Leprechaun?!

He must have really upset the wool spider, if she exists, for her to do that!!! He isn’t getting out of there any time soon [emoji23]
 

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Have you seen the jellyfish tank where Adam shut the Leprechaun?!

He must have really upset the wool spider, if she exists, for her to do that!!! He isn’t getting out of there any time soon [emoji23]
Does it look anything like this around the tank?

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If so, then she (If she exists) is really really very unset. Poor Leprechaun. I wonder if he has learned his lesson yet and if we can let him out? It must be torture to be left in there all this time with no company.
 

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It's usually one of three reasons:

The first is territory. They see their reflection in the glass and think it is more birds trying to muscle in on their territory andtry to fight them off.

The second is that they can see the reflection of a plant in the glass and think they can land on it.

And the third is that they simply can't see the glass and are trying to fly into the room.

You buy stickers shaped like hawk silhouettes that you can stick to windows and that usually stop it. Small birds won't fly toward something that is likely to eat them!

I have stickers in some of my conservatory windows which reduces the number of birds that try to fly through the glass.

We once had a Dunnock, a small bird not unlike your Cape Sparrow, that spent about a fortnight on the kitchen window ledge singing at his reflection in the window. I think he thought he could see a female, the two sexes are alike, and was trying to woo her! :D


Yep....No. 1 above is definitely a primary reason, coincidentally, I saw a Mocking Bird/Catbird doing this same exact thing yesterday against our neighbors car window. Over and over and over agsin, flying directly into the glass, sliding down, wing flapping, and then agsin. It all looks very silly!
 

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G’day all.

The weather prognosticators are calling for our FIRST FROST of this Winter season for a wide swath in our area. Temps will dip down below freezing, tender plants will feel it! Hopefully it also triggers the trees to change into their nice golden and red colors.
  • Soon time to bring our banana tree in for safe keeping through Winter. No more fresh leaves for Sully.
  • I’ll try and capture before and after f r o s t pix. Elephant ears too. Summer = now over for sure.
 

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Yep....No. 1 above is definitely a primary reason, coincidentally, I saw a Mocking Bird/Catbird doing this same exact thing yesterday against our neighbors car window. Over and over and over again, flying directly into the glass, sliding down, wing flapping, and then again. It all looks very silly!
Yes it looked quite weird to me. Especially as it did not make sense to. Poor things. Both birds were taking turns doing it.
 

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