This may be the dumbest animal alive.

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I'm now convinced that there's a sparrow living around my house that may very well be the dumbest animal I've ever seen.

Every morning at 6am sharp, it starts picking a fight with the reflection in my bedroom window. It must think it's another bird moving in on it or something, but the thing just runs into the window non-stop all day long. And I mean all day, from sunrise to sunset, for the past two weeks now. Even if I chase it away, five minutes later, it's back at it.

I've always believed animals had some limited form of inteligence, but man, at what point doesn't it realize that "hey, maybe this same flat, hard, shiny surface that I've been running into non-stop all day long for two weeks now, just might not be another bird." I mean, you would think that just the fact that this "other bird" hasn't moved anywhere else in the whole area besides a 2'x1' square on the side of a house might tip the sparrow off that there's nothing there worth throwing yourself relentlessly into a window all day long for.

I'm giving it 2 more days, then I'm busting out the BB gun. :sniper:
 
Yeah, birds do that all the time. No big deal. Used to have a cardinal near my house that did the same thing. Named him Gregory Peck. *sigh*
 
ACLeroK212 said:
lol, I'll see if I can get a pic when I get home from work. I'll try for the action shot at impact.
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lol :LOL:, cant wait to see it :thumbs:
 
There used to be some massive black bird dive bombing into the back window of my old maths classroom. It was awesome, it would swoop in then you'd here 'DOOOOOM' kind of noise hearing it hit the window. Did it for the entire year, and never knocked itself out. Some birds are a little off the ball, hence 'bird brains'
 
My friend's parents had like a little statue/figurine thing of an owl sitting on a branch in their window and every morning like 3 birds would try to attack it through the window. It would wake me up when I was over there.
 
There's crow hatchlings which I can hear scratching around in the loft above my bedroom, wake me up at 6am those things.

I'm gonna seal up the hole in the roof and listen to them starve to death.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
My cats kill birds.
One brought home a pigeon the other day... :D
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heh, I need to borrow your cat. Christ, I feel like I'm in a Hitchcock movie every day at 6 in the morning.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
My cats kill birds.
One brought home a pigeon the other day... :D
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How bigs the cat? :O
Maybe I'm just shocked as my own cat is too lazy and wimpy to kill anything bar tiny little field mice. And spiders.
 
SimonomiS said:
How bigs the cat? :O
Maybe I'm just shocked as my own cat is too lazy and wimpy to kill anything bar tiny little field mice. And spiders.
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Same here, mine just sits around and licks itself all day.
 
SimonomiS said:
How bigs the cat? :O
Maybe I'm just shocked as my own cat is too lazy and wimpy to kill anything bar tiny little field mice. And spiders.
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Its a strange cat really. I mean its quite big I suppose, but its really lean looking, so it doesn't seem any bigger than a regular cat, until its actually next to one.
 
Don't shoot it, leave the bird alone.:(





p.s. Stupid bird, kill it.
 
My dog kills birds. Yesterday she caught sight of one in a bush about 5 feet from the ground. So she came charging through our backyard at full-speed, jumped right up into the bushes, landed, and came out with a robin (or something) in her mouth and her tail wagging. She brought it to me and dropped it at me feet. Such a good dog.
 
LOL i;d love to see this.

It happened once at college. It was dead silent while everyone was working and then suddenly BAM! some retarded bird hits the window....3 times in an hour
 
Harryz said:
Don't shoot it, leave the bird alone.:(





p.s. Stupid bird, kill it.
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I was thinking of testing the accuracy of my paintball gun with it. :)

Then if it somehow lived, if it ended up fighting it's reflection in the window again it'd see it wasn't a sparrow it was fighting anymore but some orange bird, so maybe it'd lose interest.

All I know though is the things got til this weekend to get it's shit together. I'm not putting up with not being able to sleep in because some stupid sparrow's got something to prove to my window.
 
You should put a picture of an eagle on the other side of the window. That outta scare it off.
 
Thats a quality idea Harryz, and much more humane than shooting a bird simply because it's mating season and doesn't realise that it's percieved competition is a reflection.
 
i suggest putting a clotch over the mirror to see what the bird does at that point, most likely find another reflective surface and proceed to smash the hell out of itself again.

Samon.. wear a hat man.
 
NeonSpyder said:
i suggest putting a clotch over the mirror to see what the bird does at that point, most likely find another reflective surface and proceed to smash the hell out of itself again.
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Good idea...

Whats a clotch? seriously? :rolling:
 
Send out the badgers!! Badger,badger,badger,badger...
/me does the badger dance
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
You know you could just put bird seed on your neighbours window ledge.
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House is in the country and the nearest neighbor isn't within viewing distance. So I'm stuck with the little bugger.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Bugger... thats the answer. Bugger the bird, and then see if it comes back.
:O
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Well if someone did that to me, you'd be sure I wouldnt go back. Maybe Fat Tony doing the badger dance will distract it.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Bugger... thats the answer. Bugger the bird, and then see if it comes back.
:O
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Lol, damn you brits and your crazy british slang.
 
hell, it's so cool that I use it, and I'm born and raised in North Carolina.
 
There was a New Scientist article a couple months back; this duck hit a window and died, and five minutes later, a duck of the same sex did exactly the same thing, survived, and mounted the dead duck before giving it a damn good rooting. It's the only recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in a duck
 
jondyfun said:
There was a New Scientist article a couple months back; this duck hit a window and died, and five minutes later, a duck of the same sex did exactly the same thing, survived, and mounted the dead duck before giving it a damn good rooting. It's the only recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in a duck
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LMFAO!
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Bugger means to sodomise though.
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are you serious? that makes it even better.

then wtf does bugger off mean?
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Bugger means to sodomise though.
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Yeah, I know, it's slang. In the UK that's what it means. Realized that after you pointed it out. Over here it's different.

According to dictionary.com:

bug·ger Pronunciation Key (bgr, bg-)
n.

1. Vulgar Slang. A sodomite.
2. Slang. A contemptible or disreputable person.
3. Slang. A fellow; a chap: “He's a silly little bugger, then” (John le Carré).
 
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