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I herd a bang and crash went to look and this thing is breaking my windows on the barn.
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He's most likely just tapping out his "love call" trying to attract a mate.

Around here, they usually use a metal roof or and old metal posted sign.

Don't miss the shot or you will have another pane broken.  ;D  We have Cardinals that "fight" their reflection in my shop windows, but at least they do not break them.

We occasionally hear a loud thump where a wren or such hits the front window. I have a rocking chair in front and the dog food sack next to it they raid regularly. I guess they see themselves and are trying to protect their stash. I've know of Mockingbirds and redbirds attacking their reflections in windows and car mirrors. As a kid our local community store had one of the old square kerosene tanks in front of the picture window and a Cardinal would light and fight his reflection.

(Remind me to tell you the war dance Miz Elsie Davis did there the day a cricket got out of the paper bag she had him in and got down her dress. The local kid did not have a cricket cage for his fish bait so she put a dimes worth of them in a small paper bag like she sold candy in. DWTS have nothing on her!)

As a kid we had a tennis court at the HS and we had red and white woodpeckers who would make a gosh-awful racket pecking on the metal light covers to the tennis court lights. They had to have enjoyed the noise because no way they could ever dig out a grub on the metal.

We have had robins attack windows. I read that they see their reflection as intruders in their territories.

Now that the window is junk he left  ::) ::)