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fadedrose

(10,044 posts) Thu Mar 21, 2013, 01:23 PM Mar 2013

Bird crashes into glass windows - preventable

Put some stickers, even as small as postage stamps, here and there on the glass. It MUST BE ON THE OUTSIDE, not the inside. No more crashes.. Even one sticker on a small window is enough if it's about in the middle.

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Bird crashes into glass windows - preventable (Original Post) fadedrose Mar 2013 OP

make your own window clings Viva_La_Revolution Mar 2013 #1

Thanks for that info. I have never heard of this. Curmudgeoness Mar 2013 #2

it doesn't stop them from flying into the windows csziggy Mar 2013 #3

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)

1. make your own window clings

Reply to fadedrose (Original post)

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 02:46 PM

Mar 2013

cheap version for kids
http://www.ehow.com/how_7468843_diy-window-clings.html

I've made several with a kit that Gram bought off qvc several years ago. It's fun too.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

2. Thanks for that info. I have never heard of this.

Reply to fadedrose (Original post)

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 07:43 PM

Mar 2013

I had a cardboard cutout silhouette of a raptor in flight that I put on my picture windows in the spring. I have also heard that you can spray the window with hair spray on the outside to get rid of the reflexion, but that is messy and you can't look out the window while it is sprayed.

csziggy

(34,137 posts)

3. it doesn't stop them from flying into the windows

Reply to fadedrose (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:36 AM

Mar 2013

When the hawk attempts to stoop on the birds at the feeders right outside!

I've got a series of posts with feeders hanging from them about 4-5 feet from the windows. About 40 feet away is an oak tree. Sometimes the hawk sits in the tree, then stoops on the flock of eating birds, sometimes he just makes a flyby.

If you have screens on the outside of your window, you don't need the decals, btw.

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