I’ll let you all know what happens tomorrow!
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We periodically have this problem with the windows in my daughter’s upstairs bedroom. The windows in question are small and square (the birds don’t care about the larger windows in her room). I have taped back construction paper in the windows, which seems to work. The bird (idk if it’s just one bird) taps on the window with its beak, like “Let me in!”. It’s a little Alfred Hitchcock.
We also occasionally have birds fly into out breakfast nook windows, but not that often. They also attack the side mirrors on my husband’s truck. Odd behavior.
When a bird flew into our window, we thought it was dying. We put it in a shoebox with cotton. It soon recovered and flew way, so it was only stunned. But how many times can a bird survive that? We removed our bird feeder and put colorful geraniums in the window.
This bird has been doing this for over a week, every single morning.
We have no bird feeders, or hanging plants or anything like that. Just windows.we had plants in the window. They had to be moved because our cat was trying to get the bird, and knocked them all over.
It seems this is not your main concern, but how is the bird surviving flying into the window repeatedly? There are good suggestions here. Or maybe call a local wildlife center. Some of them specialize in birds.
We have tons of birds and live in an area with woods and a tons of birds. Our wildlife centers don’t deal with this sort of thing like they might in a suburb or urban area.
Maybe the aluminum foil will help.
It’s bird mating season by me and this is the time of year that males will try to attack other males in their “territory”. Birds often think their reflections in windows are competitors, hence why they are flying into the windows. Putting something in the window breaks up the reflection so they realize it’s not another bird.
Hopefully the tin foil will work!
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When does mating season end? In CT.
Depending on the species of birds it could still be many months. We’ve had multiple nesting with the same pair of birds the last several years. (Robins).
AI says August 1st in CT ; )
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I can’t put up with this for 3 more months!
Foil strips didn’t work?
My parents had good luck with putting a statue of an owl outside the side of the house with bird strikes.
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Well…the bird hit the window once and that one is on my deck so I taped the foil outside. Hopefully that has worked.
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I used to volunteer at a wildlife hospital, and we got a lot of birds from window strikes. Mostly they’re fine. When we get one hitting a window at home (usually our sliding doors), I put it in a brown paper packet and put the packet (open, on its side so they can get out easy) outside in the front bushes, which are on a terrace and so elevated away from any curious passerby cat etc. They almost all recover and fly away on their own.
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Might be fun if you just open the window.
If you call fun being a panicked bird flying round your ceiling while two interested cats follow it around from below. Been there done that!
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Birds are constantly banging in to our back windows, especially after they’re washed as I think the birds don’t see the clean glass. They appear to think they’re just flying through open space. In the ten years we’ve lived in this house, only one bird actually died. Most drop to the ground stunned and eventually fly away.
Though the bangs are quite loud and startling when they hit, we’re used to them and not about to mar the windows or view with deterrents. It is annoying to have to clean off the dusty bird “impressions” after a hit, though.
You know…it probably wouldn’t make me as crazy…but we have a cat. And the cat really thinks he can get the birds!
This bird or birds…not stunned…just bang into the window (sometimes over and over), and fly away!
Quick update. The bird is now flying into a second floor window which is above a two story foyer. It’s really nuts. This bird should be brain dead by now!
But here is a maybe not so funny part. DH and I both noticed a LOT of bird droppings on our cars…which are garaged. Well…the bird was building a nest on top of my garage door opener motor. Guess we can’t leave the garage door open for a while. DH “dismantled” the nest.
Really…this can end!
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