Subject: [Tweeters] Window strike avoidance
Date: Jan 23 12:41:06 2012
From: robert ahlschwede - swedeberger at gmail.com


While visiting at an Audubon center we found a really good way to avoid
window strikes. Quite involved and a bit expensive, but it "really, really
works" We installed this over our banks of windows and have not had a
strike since. It involves suspending/stretching bird netting over the
windows, some distance from the glass. Ours are stretched from nylon cords
held about 8" from the glass by long eye bolts. I used electrical zip ties
to secure the netting which ends up being a kind of trampoline that the
birds fly into instead of the glass. At the center I mentioned, their
netting is stretched about two feet from the glass. That allows them to get
behind the netting to clean the windows without removing the whole system.
Like I said, involved, but really works well. Has to be stretched so the
bird does not still hit the glass. The netting is almost unnoticeable and
effects photography minimally.
Rob


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Rob Ahlschwede
3726 Wesley Loop NW
Olympia, Washington 98502
360-866-1935
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