Every morning now for several days I have been awakened by a furtive tap on the bathroom window. When I go to look there is no one there. Who ever it was had flown the coop and disappeared into the woods. No sooner do I crawl back into bed, when the tapping begins again. Time after time I go to the window only to find no one there.

I go outside and quietly sneak all the way around to the back of the house where I can get a bird's eye view of the window, to no avail no one is there. I mean there is no one to be seen anywhere not in our yard or our neighbours yard, the ladder is still laying along side the wall on the ground just where it was put last fall. I no sooner get back in the house and the tapping begins again. More determined than ever I rush around the front (the short way) but still I see no one.

Finally I wait camera in hand just out of a direct line of sight to the window but with the window in view so I can catch the perpetrator on film. Suddenly there is a little flurry of movement and a little tap I jump up to the window but still no one is there. Then I see a little movement in the tree outside the window but by the time I get the camera focused the perpetrator is gone.

After a week of trying to catch the perpetrator in the act I had all but given up. From early in the morning to late in the evening our window tapper keeps coming back to tap on our window.

Perhaps he wants into the real estate market, maybe a little bird told him now is the time to buy and he knows a real estate agent lives here. Perhaps he just likes my house

Will I ever find the reason he taps on my window and then flies away at the first sign of a response, not likely for you see this little window tapper is a robin.

This small flighty window tapper is just like the furtive visitor to our web site who wants to see but does not want to be seen. He hides in the bushes by giving false information when he signs into our site. He wants to check things out in his own time but does not want us to record his presence. He does not want us chasing after him as he flees the scene when we notice his presence. He does not want our follow ups or drip email campaigns.

He just wants to be left alone to search furtively in the recess of our site searching for his dream home. Sometimes he lurks in the shadows of our site for months, sometimes for years, our web listing management service provider lets us know when he is there and what he looks at but when we acknowledge his presence he runs away and hides sometimes never to return.

How should we deal with him? Should we try to capture him "on film" with our tracking services or should we politely ignore him until he is ready to ask for assistance?