Why would a bird try to get into my window screen?

Question

I'm not a particularly superstitious person, so I'm looking for a logical explanation to this odd behavior. A small bird, I don't know what kind, a little brown one, definitely full-grown was trying to get into my apartment window at eleven thirty at night. It was hanging onto and flitting about on the screen and checking it for holes. I figured it was injured or something since when I came over and shooed it it didn't fly off. It spent about five minutes at my window, two minutes with me right there. I'm just wondering if there's anyone who knows a great deal about birds because from my perspective, happening at night, on the window screen with me right there shooing it and with what certainly seemed like intent was a little strange. Then again it was late and I was tired, maybe it's not that strange at all. any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

I think the bird might have been trying to get into your room and it didn't see the screen, so it was trying to get in anyways.

Answer 2

It is breeding season right now and birds are very territorial at this time of year.  Many times they will see their own reflection in windows and mirrors and think there is another bird invading their territory and will try and attack this intruder.  The other possibility is that the bird has a nest on your house or near the screen and was trying to get to it..there are a couple species that will build mud nests stuck to the side of a man-made structure, and some that will nest in vents on houses as well.

Answer 3

It may have flown into the window and got disoriented, or something scared it nearby from its sleep and it was again disoriented. Or it saw itself reflected in the window and was attacking the "other bird". I've seen birds going after their reflection in car mirrors before, and they can keep it up for hours.  Who knows? They don't call 'em "bird brains" for nothing!

Answer 4

somebody should get rid of those d**n birds

Answer 5

That would freak me out...

I don't like birds around me...

It's hard to say what it was doing, trying to find a nesting spot.

I've had them come down my chimney and I could see them through the glass of my wood stove, I hid and let my husband remove them.