Like the raven, the crow is a bird, which appears in world mythology as a soothsayer, an omen of death and as a creator and cleanser, taking away all that was decayed. Full of intelligence, cunning, and playfulness. A picture of two crows in ancient Egypt symbolized married happiness.
So what are the Gods saying to me?
Crows at my windows.
These crows have come to be a nuisance and a total nightmare to the quality of my sleep.
They start at first light by constantly pecking at my windows. A local told me that they do this in the mating season but I am not sure, its been going on now for many months. They are in my opinion an aggressive bird that sees its own reflection in my tinted windows and tries to attack it as another bird, possible in its territory. They will do this for many hours. They have left me presents of dead and part body parts of birds in the water dish I have for them and they attack the sparrows that nest in my balcony lights
I have tried many things to stop them pecking at my windows. First, I printed large pictures of Eagles and even a Lion so as to frighten the crows away. Then I put up some pillow covers across the bottoms of my windows and doors where they always seem to peck in a hope they would not see their reflections. All they did was to go to the top of my windows and continue.
My Landlord then gave me some very fine almost invisible fishing net and told me that it worked at another house of his. So I put up this fine fishing net on all my three balconies and the game continued. They could not get to the parts of the windows that they wanted to peck at, so they went higher in an attempt to peck at their reflection. It may only ever be this one crow but it managed to grip onto the wooden surround at the top of the window and hang upside down on one foot so as to peck the window. Mmm I thought. Next step was to stick white paper at those parts of the windows it wanted to peck at so it could not see itself. Then the crow went to other windows that I had no net at, here I put up again white paper so it could not see itself. The crow is still persistent and mostly now only pecks at one window.
So now with fishing net at three balconies and white paper at all other windows where they peck, I am up at 6-am when woken by them or it. I wait for the crow to start pecking, then, I knock at the window with my knuckles and off it goes. Slowly I think the crow is giving up, because once it goes it does not come back. But, I have learnt from them that they are not easy to give up. They usually give me peace for a short while and then come back again, possibly with a new tactic.
I will wait and see what happens tomorrow morning.