One crow, nicknamed “Psycho”, smashed the windows of an idyllic cottage during a campaign of terror causing hundreds of pounds of damage.
Torvald Alexander was left at his wits’ end after a bird began smashing the windows of his 19th century two-bed home, in Biggar, Lanarkshire, one-by-one.
The 53-year-old has been forced to fork out £800 to repair the damages, after the crow began “tapping repeatedly” on Torvald’s kitchen window last Thursday.
At first he thought it was “quite funny” but then the bird shattered the glass pane, leaving him horrified.
Then, the very next day, it returned once more and began pecking at the bathroom window.
Torvald was able to shoo it away before it broke it, but last Monday, after a weekend away, he returned home to find Psycho had struck once more.
The crow had smashed another six panes.
The Daily Record reported 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.”
But then he was left shocked when he returned home after some time away to see the damage the crow had unleashed upon his home.
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.”
