Every morning since the weather became nice, we have a bird who flies against the windows in our kitchen. Over and over and over…every morning. Makes our cat (inside) crazy. These windows have the screens on the inside. This morning the car (doing his job) knocked out the screens three times, and overturned the plants on the windowsill. First time that has happened.
If I go out when the bird is there, I can chase it away for a while…but it seems to always come back…mostly in the morning.
Poor bird! There are commercially available films you can put on the window so that the bird sees the stripes or dots rather than himself. Here are a few. You can also just use a bar of soap to make a small pattern on the window.
We were having a similar problem, likely caused by a bird feeder that was outside a large kitchen window (the feeder has now been taken down since winter is over).
We went to the hardware store and bought some cord – I think that it might have been parachute cord. We then hung strips of cord hanging down across the window every six inches or so. The cords are outside. I tied a knot at the ends of each cord – at the bottom to add a bit of weight (not much) and at the top to stop it from slipping down.
Over time the cords shrunk a bit. You want to account for this when cutting them to length in the first place. Fortunately they all shrunk the same amount so they still match.
Interesting that the bird does not fly into the window–which would result in instant death of the bird. We had that problem when we moved in. We have several large picture windows. Have to keep the shades/curtains drawn to alert other birds.
Consider a window decal or hanging a stained glass overlay/inlay on the windows.
I’ve seen at nature centers that have huge plate glass windows decals of hawks or other birds of prey that are said to deter smaller birds from crashing into the window.
We had that in our old house. The bird seemed to come back every year. It would perch on our railing and fly into the window. We put a hawk decal on the window.
I spent a fair amount of time visiting Johns Hopkins Hospital, and I remember noticing the windows had decals or something to help prevent birds from slamming into them. (I didn’t know why they were there until I asked someone).
We had this problem of a bird repeatedly flying/crashing into the same window. It was also springtime mating season and we learned that some male birds see their reflection as a competitor and attempt to attack it. Tried a few things and wound up finding that temporarily putting a fabric (or plastic) covering on the exterior of the window for a few days deterred him. Best with this.
