Dead little birds and windows?

Cortrasna

Cortrasna

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:cry: Shot in the dark here - we have two bird tables that we religously keep full to brimming with delicous goodies for the little feathered chaps. Have always had a certain amount of 'wastage' with them flying into the kitchen windows and rigor mortis sets in before we can do anything to revive them.:rolleyes:

The two tables with hanging thingys are positioned about 12 feet from our large kitchen windows (can't put them any further away because would be in the paddock and the hooved ones would muller them) - Window is North facing - can anyone tell me of any ideas (that wouldn't cost a re-mortgage to implement) of doing something with the big windows and french doors to stop the little ones flying into the windows?

The death rate this year is quite alarming - Mr. Cortrasna has sat for several hours with injured ones nestled in his big mitt - some recover and then can fly off - but a lot are dying, probably from shock more than anything else. I re-assure him that we are probably saving more by feeding than we are losing by them flying into the windows. but is there any solution do you know?:poop:
 
I believe that silhouettes of birds stuck to the window can warn them that there's something there. Though when I think about it, I don't know why....
 
Funnily enough I have been looking on E Bay for something similar to do my Front Door Windows. You can get a Window 'film' that gives a stained glass
effect or you can get other things like 'one Rose' to stick on the window so that people realise they are there, so I guess it would apply to birds as
well.

You can also get 'suncatchers' which work in a similar manner.

Type 'stained glass window film' into E Bay and it comes up with all sorts of things:wink:
 
fairlady said:
Funnily enough I have been looking on E Bay for something similar to do my Front Door Windows. You can get a Window 'film' that gives a stained glass
effect or you can get other things like 'one Rose' to stick on the window so that people realise they are there, so I guess it would apply to birds as
well.

You can also get 'suncatchers' which work in a similar manner.

Type 'stained glass window film' into E Bay and it comes up with all sorts of things:wink:
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Ditto.
I got some glass paint, painted daft pictures on a bit of plastic and then when they are dry they peel off and are clingy to glass - I have them all round the greenhouse so the kids and dogs dont run into it. You can buy window stickers (some of them are very pretty although there are plenty of naff ones) or get some suction hooks and hang up some sun catchers. These have paint your own options too, just in case you are feeling a bit arty on a rainy day :)
 
Same here :( Latest casualty was a recently fledged little wren, parents had been v succusful and reared 5ish, so sad to hear this little thump and know what's happened. I'd far rather it be the pigeonasaurus that eats all my veggies...
 
Here is one of the things I was talking about by 'stained-glass-specialist' on EBAY, they have loads of designs and 'full window' film as well :wink:
 

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eml, those phesants wouln't last 10 minutes if I lived there, the freezer wouold be full!
 
My mum cut a picture of a hawk type bird out of one of her bird magazines and stuck it in her big window - she said other birds are scared of hawk shapes - it did seem to work. There's a blackbird at the yard who keeps fighting his reflection in one of the school mirrors so they've stuck up a picture of an owl's face out of a magazine. Blackbird completely ignores it and carries on fighting its own reflection!

We have loads of game birds here too - blummin nuisance. Why do they always wait until the last minute before flying up right from underneath your horse's feet?? I've already had one fall because of them and I'm sure it won't be the last!
 
Interesting. I have a very low rate of casualties in this house, could it be because the bird feeder is near the window with Eddie in it? (Eddie is our gorgeous stuffed "real" owl?!) In the old house we had loads dying by blows to the windows, poor wee things.
Hmm. I wonder......perhaps Eddie is scaring them off the windows without me realising?

Sorry to hi-jack by the way, but does anybody know how I can stop the resident grey squirrel from eating its own bodyweight in nuts? It keeps thieving them all and there are hardly any left over for the birds!!! Naughty thing - I've tried putting it in different places but he always seems to latch on............
 
Think I'll look into maybe some sort of picture on film to break up the huge expanse and see if that helps - Like the sound of having an Olly the Owl sitting in the window - but think that might frighten them away from the feeders!:smile:
 
How close to the window is the bird feeder, ie can they see a reflection of the feeder in the glass? The could be getting greedy, or the feeder gets crowded, so they try to get to the other feeder that they can see over there ... *splat*

(given that most animals/birds haven't got a clue what a window or a reflection is!)
 
Lobelia Overhill said:
How close to the window is the bird feeder, ie can they see a reflection of the feeder in the glass? The could be getting greedy, or the feeder gets crowded, so they try to get to the other feeder that they can see over there ... *splat*

(given that most animals/birds haven't got a clue what a window or a reflection is!)
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No they can't see the reflection of the feeders - but (this probably sounds mad) we have built this huge extension on the back of the part that was the old cottage - my theory is that perhaps the new kitchen bit is in a centurys old flight path? And they just happily going whizzing through on instinct and as you say *splat*:giggle:
 
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