We have had several birds fly into our patio windows and stun themselves. Does anybody know where I can buy the 'stick on shapes' that I can put on the windows to show there is a window there?
I dont even know what they are called
RSPB sell them in their catalogue and here:-
Cheers Jim
Good grief, whats wrong with some cut out bits of paper and sticky tape?
Birds don't normally fly into windows, is there a view across the room and through another window or a big mirror giveing the impression of a tunnel?
Only had this happen once; looked out expecting to find a stunned thrush on the patio, only to find a sparrowhawk eating said thrush.
My parents have two large dining room windows, and occasionally birds try and fly through. I recall early one morning when I was a teenager and staying in the house alone, I was woken by a loud bang which sounded like a football being kicked into a large window. Walked into the dining room still half asleep, and there was a white dust mark in the shape of a large bird with fully extended wings in the middle of the glass. Looked out of the window to see a pigeon with a broken neck on the ground. Was very strange (not to say rather eerie at the time) how it left a perfect print of itself on the glass.
Yes they do! I can guarantee that within days of cleaning my windows, some stupid bird will have flown into the glass. It's usually pigeons or doves, judging by the size of the dirty marks they leave.
I'm told that the best way to stop this happening is not to clean the windows. The idea does have a certain appeal!
Not in any of _my_ rooms, there's not, with the possible exception of the window on the upstairs landing.
Yep, it's a kind of cruciform shape. The little buggers do it to my windows all the time... You'd think all that flying about would blow the dust off, wouldn't you?
Ahhhh! - Is that how the Turin shroud was made?
They're called manifestations.
Google for "glass manifestation".
HTH Rumble
We rarely clean our windows, the rain driven by the gales does that for us... And most aren't "picture" windows which may be another factor.
Maybe the clean windows reflect the outside scene rather too well making it look like the open?
More like pigeons and doves are just stupid birds...!
Pretty sure that's it.
My parents had a picture window in a house once that they had to net in the end, so many birds flew into it. We get a few, and judging by the impact marks they are frantically trying to dodge their own reflections at the time of collision!
Andy
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