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OT One Mystery Solved

MichaelMouse

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MM,

Seen this a lot with cardinals here, have even had several doing this behavior on house windows, very unnerving when you're trying to sleep!!! I'm assuming that they are this territorial only during breeding season, but I don't know for sure.

I'm convinced that cardinals are just strange........

Rich
 
MM, this is not uncommon with Cardinals and house windows here. Must admit attacking the car windows is a new one though.
 
I take advantage of ornithological territoriality in my birdhouses, as the Audubon site suggests. Two houses facing each other produces one bluebird and one swallow family. Singles are exclusively swallows.

Even the wicked queen took it out on Snow White, not the mirror, for cryin' out loud.
 
In the second picture one is male, one is female.
Maybe the reflection in the glass is so blurred/distorted that the confusion is triggering their testosterone/estrogen?
Clean your windows. :D
 
Cardinals

Mine leave my windows alone. In Cincinnati, by daughters sister-in-law house (sliding door) had a yearly attack by a red (dumb males!!!) cardinal . Mine must be more gentlemanly!!!:DGretch
 
As I finish Thursday's leftover chili, the pair is attacking the wife's sedan. It's where the wagon was parked when I shot the photos, but since they have attacked it right in front of the garage, I don't think its any kind of a location thing.
 
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