Birds and windows

[Regular.Cyclist]

Since moving to our new home 15 days ago we have had three birds, that we know of, fly into window. Two have been into the window in the front door and the other into a small window at the back of the property. In all cases they have flown away so don’t appear to have suffered serious injury but it’s impossible to know for sure.

Has anyone else had this issue and, if so, how did you solve it?

 

[SuffolkBlue]

The only window that I've had birds fly into is kitchen window. It's not really in what I would consider a flight path but it's the only window without a net curtain!

 

[Alex321]

I'm 67, and can only remember it happening once, in all the houses I have lived in during my life.

We've had more cases of birds getting inside the house (through an open window or door) and struggling to get out again.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In one of my old offices we had silhouettes of birds of prey on the problem windows, Seemed to work.

 

[DRM]

We had a starling fly into the bedroom window at full speed, the poor thing died, but it was because it was being closely followed by a kite with one it's pals in it's talons! I have never seen such a thing before, the kite was about 5 feet off the ground when it shot straight past me

 

[annedonnelly]

What can they see through the windows they've hit? Sometimes they think there's a route through.

I think mainly when I've had window strikes it's been something being chased by a sparrowhawk - I used to find the imprint of woodpigeons on the window.

The worst I had was at the garden I used to look after - dunnocks kept flying into the greenhouse glass during the winter when it was empty. I think I found at least 3 dead. I ended up hanging all sorts of decorations inside so it didn't look like they could fly through.

 

[OldShep]

Almost a daily occurrence here. We’ve tried the birds of prey silhouette on some windows which didn’t help.
We get some deaths but most leave a few feathers and fly away. Some lay on the ground stunned and we’ve found if you cradle them in the warmth of the hands they recover and fly away.
Some are frightened by the speed of passing trains on WCML and a lot of recent cases they’ve been scared by a SparrowHawk who is working the area.
Picture of a recovery last year