Cardinal With a Death Wish

Every friggin Spring this bird is back.

We have one or two cardinals (the bird, not the religious figure) that live in our Holly bushes. That would be wonderful, except for that they are SUICIDAL! Seriously.

Last year, they kept flying into the windows of our house. hard.

So I put up pictures of other animals in the windows. Disgruntled cats, menacing squirrels. Nothing.

Then I put up photos of the kids everywhere. Nothing.

It subsided for a while, then thump thump thump. grr.

This year, as soon as the weather got nice. Thump.

Dammit!

I went online, and found something called scare tape. It's reflective tape (really like fancy streamers) that farmers are supposed to used to scare birds from crops.

I twisted it all around my windows, which now look very festive.

It lasted ONE FRIKKIN day.

As I write, that damned cardinal is going through the festive iridescent tape to thump himself into the windows.

I wish these bastards would give themselves amnesia already and go to another house.

Geesh. And no, I do not want to put up movable, hotting, eyes glaring owl decoys in the front of my house. That would scare the crap out of me and the kids, and our guests.

Oh, and Jonny is on his 53rd viewing of Strawberry Shortcake in the Land of Dreams, and Sydney Beth had crafted a "water slide" of onion dip for her veggies. genius.