I have a kamikaze bird hitting my window. It’s been at it for five hours. Any ideas how to get it to stop?
Bird hitting window
- Thread starter Sparkplug
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Not always 100%, but maybe try closing blinds or something if possible. Seems like they especially like to do this if they can see through the house to another exterior window (thinking they can fly through). Though I do get some flying into windows even with privacy screens...
Eliminate the bird, problem solved. All those crashes into the window makes you think he's not too bright and just needs put out of his misery.
We constantly have birds flying into our backboard. At least 5 times a year we find a dead bird laying under the hoop.
Or they see their reflection and think it's an adversary. Try closing blinds/curtains or tape something colorful or at least large there for a couple days or so.
Couple of years ago we had a bird that continuously did this, hitting just one of our windows. This went on for days. Closing blinds didn't help, seemed like it was going after the reflection in the window. The bird would sit on our deck rail, which is about 3 feet away from the window, and just jump and flap into the window, bounce off of it and land back on the deck rail. Over and over. Finally I taped a few sheets of white paper up on the outside of the window and the bird got bored and left.
Neighbors probably wondered wtf was going on but that fixed the issue.
Neighbors probably wondered wtf was going on but that fixed the issue.
This is it.
The bird sees its own reflection and thinks it's another bird - an adversary. You need to do something that will either eliminate the reflection or spook the bird away. We've used pinwheels around the back deck railing and it seems to work. Also adjusted blinds and posted colored paper in the window. Different things seem to work for different times of day.
We have birds hit our windows and die a few times a year. Mostly it's seeing the reflections and thinking that is what is there.
The south side of the house is 75% glass. It just keeps working its way back and forth hitting every window. Most have the blinds shut and it just keeps hitting them.
Wow this sounds like an exceptionally stupid bird. It could have an IQ that rivals Gary Barta. Amazing.
At our office they have these put up.
https://www.nwf.org/~/media/PDFs/Be Out There/helpfulhawks.ashx
https://www.nwf.org/~/media/PDFs/Be Out There/helpfulhawks.ashx
