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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: bluejay55 on October 12, 2010, 08:51:38 AM

Title: Birds hitting windows
Post by: bluejay55 on October 12, 2010, 08:51:38 AM

Can anyone help.  In the morning the sun hits my very large back window.  Every once in awhile a bird will fly into it.  So far there have not been any casualties.  The problem is, even if I stick something on the inside of the window the sun is still reflecting off the window so the birds cannot see it.  Does anyone have any ideas?

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Post by: Sahria on October 12, 2010, 07:13:43 PM

These are ultraviolet decals. They don't inhibit views but they act as a stop sign for birds by making the window visible.
http://www.windowalert.com/ (http://www.windowalert.com/)

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Post by: bluejay55 on October 13, 2010, 08:19:38 AM

Thank you so much Sahria.  I will look in to it.

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Post by: musicalfool on October 15, 2010, 11:19:35 PM

What I am trying now seems to work better than other methods tried.  I string feathers evenly along fishing line and attach the line vertically to the windows, large windows obviously use more lines of feathers than others.   I know the birds do definitely notice them and the hummingbirds actually hover in front of the red feathers, ignoring other colours.