Subject: Birds flying into a glass door
Date: Feb 28 21:21:58 2004
From: Stewart Wechsler - ecostewart at quidnunc.net


To keep birds from flying into your windows and hurting or killing
themselves I understand that a cut-out silhouette of a Sharp-shinned Hawk on
your window will prevent it. I don't know how well they work, but I'm told
they do work. Bird decals aren't so much to tell them where the window is,
but to scare them away from the window. Birds instinctively know that an
accipiter shape means danger. Chickadee decals are more likely to indicate
safety.

Stewart Wechsler
West Seattle
mailto:ecostewart at quidnunc.net
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[mailto:TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of J Bonham
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 2:56 PM
To: tweeters
Subject: Birds flying into a glass door


I am having a lot of trouble with birds flying into my glass sliding door
off my bedroom. There are decals of Chickadees on the door in all the
strategic places that I can put them. Today three Pine Siskins have already
hit this door, once when the door was so steamed over that I could barely
see out. Earlier this year a female Red-Winged Blackbird nearly killed
herself. I have some feeders hanging off the overhang of the porch, about 2
1/2 feet from the door, so usually the birds don't get up to speed enough to
really hurt themselves. With three of the Pine Siskins today playing
kamikaze warriors on that door, I am becoming very concerned. Outside of
moving the feeders, I have run out of ideas. If I move these feeders, the
jays will take them over, also. If there is anyone out there with any
ideas, I would appreciate them.

J.V. Bonham
Centralia, WA
jvbonham at msn.com
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