Advice Needed Re: Crazed Cardinal

A female cardinal started attacking our glass last Spring. Thinking it would end after nesting season we strung up colored tape, tin foil streamers, bird decoys...all to no avail. There is bird beak blood and snot on most of the glass in the house and we live in a glass contemporary house. lol (not) She starts at day break and continues beating herself against the windows until sundown. The mate and kids perch in trees nearby while she indulges in the bizarre behavior. Our dogs have learned to ignore the racket but we are ready to be committed. She moves on to another side of the house or another level if we bang on the glass. She has set off the glass breakage alarms on our system at 5 a.m.. Not the best way to wake up in the morning. What can we do?
Laurel

I'm not sure how many windows your talking about but here is a page with some suggestions.

http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Cardinals-Windows.html

Thanks for the link Pelletory. I never knew they were more territorial than other birds. This photo shows the situation. This is half the width of the second level of a two and a half story vaulted east wall (ten 8' panes and five angled panes at the top.. It corners the north wall which is identical; a glass right angle, so the two walls create a giant exterior mirror. We have two rooms like this and banks of glass and windows in every room in the house (three levels). All the corners of all the rooms are glass rather than being set in the middle of the walls. There are approx. one hundred and twenty seven glass panels, windows and doors in the house. I only know this because my daughter had a project in kindergarten to count windows and doors in her house and the teacher called me about "fibbing". We have very few window coverings and are careful to never throw stones and never run around scantily clad in winter. :>) So maybe I should be asking what is the average life span of a cardinal?
Laurel

The walls with the least glass are not immune from attack. She doesn't seem to care what time of day she bangs against any side of the house.

Thats a beautiful home!

The average lifespan of a Cardinal is 15 years... sorry. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/cardinal/

Thank you. It's the ultimate twenty five year DIY project. I do the design, we contract the rough in and then we do most of the finish out. The cardinal apparently is not at risk for a crash but she looks very battered. She seems to know her mark. However the several downys and a huge pilieated, along with finches and assorted other small birds that have flown into the reflected woods, make all the glass not very environmentally friendly.

had a female Cardinal wage a deadly war on the mirrors on my car a few years back I am just guessing but I think she is attacking her reflection ..My solution would be to use deadly force ,more humane that letting her beat herself to death

Grits, Please read this.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/681219/

I would never harm any wildlife on our properties intentionally. Well, maybe the copperheads. We are conservators of a great gift. I was up for several hours last night with foxes fighting (or mating?) below our bedroom window. We are fortunate to have several acres of green space in the city and try to provide a habitat for our friends. Our neighborhood homes have similar habitats. We are housing the pressed wildlife of an ever-growing city. We love going to sleep to the haunting sound of owls calling across our woods, woodpeckers of many types hammering away during the day (often on our house) and swarms of finches stopping for a seasonal visit. Then there are the hawks that swoop across the open spots to hunt and perch on our third story deck with their catch. We are not at all what would be considered knowledgeable birders but we love the ones that share our space. All this said, there's been no relief to the problem. We just run around the house banging on the windows.
L