OT - Birds crashing into windows

This year I have had several birds kill themselves by flying into our back windows - I suppose it is a reflection of the sky they see. All have been the same type (Finch with a yellow area near their tail)

Why is this year the only time in 20 at the same house that I have encountered this? Lazy cats?

Reply to
John
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The cats will be along to pick up the carrion and get themselves a bad name for 'killing the birds'

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Better than pigeons - we had one hit one of the barn windows a few months ago, except it was big and heavy enough that the pigeon won and the window didn't. I really don't like cutting new bits of glass :-)

Reply to
Jules

Plus cats already have a bad name for crapping all over other people's gardens.

Reply to
pete

Quite put me off urban gardens. In London, as one of the few left with a lawn, my garden was the neighbourhood cat toilet. When I moved a small paved garden was a major attraction.

Rob

Reply to
Rob

Recently had that problem - applied a liberal dose of supposedly well rotted horse manure - no cats have yet been back. Only a few weeks so far...

Reply to
Rod

Fit proper glass then.

Reply to
dennis

Are you sure they died? We have quite a lot of bird strikes, and a surprising number of times, the stunned bird recovers and flies off before anything gets it.

Reply to
Mike Barnes

"No evidence"

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Reply to
Andy Cap

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Cap saying something like:

Huge can't be spouting s**te again, can he? How on Earth does he manage it? It's a talent, I'm sure.

Reply to
Grimly Curmudgeon

As to the first part: if you want to reduce/stop it put silhouettes of hawks on the affected windows.

As to the second: no idea.

Richard

Reply to
Richard Savage

Male chaffinch. Common territorial behaviour. They attack their own reflection in the glass, thinking that it is another male bird.

Happens all the time here during the breeding season (but I have never seen a death).

Reply to
Ziggur

I can sympathise. I once lived in a house where all the neighbours had cats that all used the "neutral zone" to crap in. There must have been about nine.

We considered getting one of our own to gurad it, that way we'd only have one load of crap to clean up.

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hognoxious

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