Where have all the flies suddenly come from? Sitting on the front porch this morning I was nearly carried off by black, buzzing flies. They seem particularly attracted to the white
How is it that when I travel away from home on business my husband and son can muster the energy to take themselves out for dinner, but when I’m home, they can’t?
How can it be that work expands to the time you have to do it? Business is slow, but I’ll be darned it if still doesn’t take all day.
What is the purpose in having the WHOLE family of six stand side-by-side in a line right next to the luggage carousel at the airport to pick up Grandma’s single suitcase, preventing anyone else from even seeing the conveyor belt?
Why does it take my son 15 minutes to mow the Back 40 while it takes me 45 minutes to mow the same area?
Is it wrong to hope that something untoward happens to the male and female cardinal pair that has been attacking the windows of our house, front and back, 18 hours/day for the past month? The noise is incessant.
Who let the dogs out? Oh, I know the answer to that one. That would be me. Apparently I am the ONLY ONE living in this house capable of opening the door and stepping outside with the dogs.
(This is Miss P, our resident feline. She is crabby. I think it’s the dogs. I have talked with her about the cardinal situation, but she hasn’t yet taken action.)
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The cardinals are defending their territory by attacking those strange cardinals that they see in your windows. Do away with the reflections and you’ll do away with the attacks. Sometimes it is as simple as putting curtains or blinds across the window to break up the reflection. Some people stretch nets across the outside of their windows. Others use something with movement – Mylar tape blowing in the wind, a windmill, etc. – mounted near the window to scare the birds away. It can be done if you are persistent. And you should be if those attacks really bother you.
Hi Dorothy,
Good advice and I’m aware of the reason for the cardinal madness. But when your WHOLE HOUSE is windows, as ours practically is, it’s not easy to deter the birds. Closing curtains doesn’t help. Some windows don’t even have curtains–too big. I will suffer through. The cat is too old and although I joke about it I would feel bad if she took them out anyway.
Robin at Bumblebee
Okay, I confess to laughing, but not at you, I promise, just out of–what, the sheer joy of identification, I think. Also because you made it funny.
Could ribbons or mylar be tacked to frames above even the huge windows? Eighteen hours of incessant hammering would get to me, too. And it can’t be good for the cardinals, you’d think.
Maybe you’ll be the first person living in a glass house to throw stones at it deliberately.
–Kate
Bwahaha! Funny about the glass house. I have thought of it. My teenage son has come close, until I stopped him.
Frankly, the dogs have gotten used to it. And as long as I turn the fans up on the high setting, it pretty much drowns them out when I want to nap.
(Aren’t fans great? I HATE air conditioning.)
Robin at Bumblebee
I had to smile as I read this, too — not so much about the birds (you have my sympathy), but at the expression on your kitty’s face…she really does look crabby. 🙂
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Sounds like summer’s heat is getting to someone. Wait a minute – that’s me!
Robin, a delightful post! I know you have lots of windows, but this might work…we put a silhouette of a flying hawk in the window and the birds are gone..I move it about so they don’t get too used to it.
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Obviously Miss P is crabby because she has no front legs! 😉