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I knows birds of prey are used to scare pigeons away not sure what they actually do.
Never seen a grey crow.
Honestly I'm having nightmares just thinking about the feckers.

I have the same problem with a crow attacking my windows and my cars rear windscreen. The rubber seal at the bottom of my house windows and the rubber of the windscreen wiper have both been damaged.

I today spoke to a fab lady at my local RSPB who said this is territorial behaviour and the crow seeing its` reflection in the glass thinks it`s another crow and attacks it. When this `other` crow doesn`t back off, crow numero uno gets frustrated and displacement behaviour occurs whereby the crow attacks the rubber/wood, which obviously is more damageable than the glass. I can only assume that the crow gets more relief from this.

Anyway, the RSPB say that crows have a highly attuned sense of smell - way more sensitive than ours - bear in mind they are carrion feeders - and that applying a nasty smell to the area being attacked can stop this behavior. Sometimes it will just stop without treatment.

The lady recommended anything containing the compound Aluminium Ammonium Sulphate. She stated it`s distasteful to the crow but not toxic.

I googled this and it`s in B+Q`s animal repellent, also `Scoot`, `Curb`, `Stay Off`, Johnsons `Clear Off` etc. So good luck - I`ll be trying it tomorrow - I was getting to the point where I felt like Inspector Clouseau with my crow `Cato` lurking round every corner waiting to attack my car !!

well I couldn`t find it in my town but the woman said anything smelling unpleasant might also work, so I used `Vicks` the nasal rub stuff !! Bizaare yes, but it worked. I smeared it on the window seals at the bottom of the windows and along the window sills. Looked awful but worked. This year as the light mornings arrived, I did it again and I had one incident then nothing more. I guess he`s moved south to harrass you as my windows smelt too much!! (I have since washed them, honest!)
Bear in mind, you`ll still see a reflection even if blinds are down so long as it`s daylight - maybe more so than if not down. Anyway, good luck - smelly worked for me and saved my windows (and my car which I had put a frost cover on but one corner of which blew down and he then could see himself and started shredding it - smeared it with `Vicks` and he stopped).

for some reason rarely in E Scotland,

Thank feck, I'm safe so.