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Crow smashing Scots cottage windows causes £800 worth of damage during 'campaign of terror'
dailyrecord.co.ukA crow is targeting a cottage – smashing its windows one by one in a campaign of “terror”. Torvald Alexander, 53, is at his wits’ end since the bird – which he’s nicknamed “Psycho” – arrived at his two-bed home last week.
The crow began “tapping repeatedly” on his kitchen window, eventually breaking a pane last Thursday.The next day it started pecking at the bathroom window, but was shooed away by Torvald.
Last Monday, however he returned from a weekend away to find Psycho had smashed another six panes.He said: “When I first saw the crow I filmed him tapping on the kitchen window thinking it was quite funny – but then he smashed it. “I was fuming, but I boarded it up and thought nothing more about it really.” He said that he couldn’t believe it when he returned home to Biggar, Lanarkshire, to find six more windows smashed.He said: “I drove up to the cottage and immediately saw that two windows were gone, and then went round the back and found another four smashed.“I’ve been told he was attacking his own reflection thinking he was fighting off a rival.
The only thing I know is that it’s going to cost me £800-odd to fix all the windows. I’ve boarded them up for the time being and I’ve not seen the crow for a couple of days, so hopefully he thinks he’s finished the job.” Andy Law, of Andy Law Pest Control in Perth, said: “This is because it is the start of the nesting season, and the crows are attacking their own reflections, thinking that they are rival crows invading their territory.” Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond - sign up to our daily newsletter here.
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