Birds and Windows - Not a Good Combination
April 14, 2008 7:23 am Random Observations
It’s sad, but it seems like birds hit the windows where I work all the time. Does anyone else have this problem? Ok, honestly, sometimes I think it’s pretty funny!
So last Friday I was wrapping up my week at work, had my headphones in, and then all of a sudden WHAM! Scared me pretty good, so I just figured someone was messing with me and banging on the window. Then I noticed something stuck to the window…looked like feathers.
Then I looked in the bushes right below the window and there was a big dead bird. That’s probably the biggest that I’ve seen hit a window here. A couple other guys came over to figure out what it was and most figured it was a small pheasant! I’m just glad it didn’t break the window or something, but it sure did break its neck or something because it was stone dead!
So yes, it’s official: birds need to learn to distinguish windows from the real thing. The sad thing is when people do it too. I was a party once and some girl…well, let’s just say she couldn’t tell the difference between the open glass door and the regular glass door. So maybe birds aren’t the only ones with this problem.
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tags: nature, observations
Most birds will not go where an owl is. Why don’t you buy a fake owl from a garden center and mount it near the window. that should stop the birds from banging into it. Good luck.
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That is really funny. At my house we always had birds doing that when we’d be sitting down to eat. Once it actually splattered bird guts. It was pretty gross.
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It still makes me laugh the time I saw my former marine boss jump out of his skin when a bird hit the window in our office.
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Dan Reply:
November 5th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
LOL, that would be pretty funny!
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We own a gazillion African Grey Parrots (’cause we breed ‘em) so we get the same thing happening from the other way round (inside)especially when the babies start learning to fly … that’s a real pain in the backside I can tell you!!
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