Hi all: I went to the garden center and bought the black netting you put over fruit trees and such to keep the animals from eating your stuff. I had saw and article that told about stretching in over the outside of your windows to keep birds from flying into them. We have a bay window in our kitchen which gets very little sun on it because of all the trees. So my poor birds were always trying to fly into the tree reflections and knocking themselves silly. I have tried reflective cling on's inside and out. Didn't work. Pictures, sun catchers, ect. Nothing seemed to work. Since I put up the netting we have had no more bird strikes. But now we have created a baby Red squirrel jungle gym. It's fun to watch while we are eating as our kitchen table sits right in front of the window. They crawl across the window going up, down, and sideways.
My neighbor had a problem with a cardinal attacking his window. I think it was seeing it's reflection and being territorial. I suggested this solution, not knowing if it would work, but he turned me down. Glad to know for sure that it does. thanks for letting us in on the solution.
Good idea, and one I hadn't heard of. We don't have a problem with birds flying into house windows or patio doors, but they do get confused and try to fly through the window into the shed. I'll try the bird netting there.
Good idea, I have a window here in my side room that the birds crash into sometimes when they see the reflection of the feeders hanging on the tree.
Bird Strike netting. Here are the pic's. I used thin nylon fence wire because that is what I had on hand. You need to us something that will hold up to weather exposure. I wove it in and out all around the diameter. Then I purchased picture hangers. The ones that are shaped like a J. You can see them pretty good in one of the pic's. I tried to figure out a different way of holding it onto the window. But this works really good as there is an edge around my window that I can hook them over. I stretched it as tight as I dare without ripping it. The one pic is from the inside looking out. You can see that it doesn't effect your view to much. Also you can see in one of the pic's one of the two little red squirrels that like to use it as a jungle gym. If you can come up with a better way to attach it please let me know. Bird netting to prevent strikes. ( photo / image / picture from Tooty2shoes's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Tooty2shoes's Garden ) Red squirrel jungle gym ( photo / image / picture from Tooty2shoes's Garden )
At work we had a glass corridor that connected one building with another. Over time the bird count would mount as they crashed into the large glass panes. Sometimes I would get a call that a stunned bird was on the ground. Shoe box in hand I would scoop up the bird, take it back to my office and put it in the filing cabinet. I waited, sometimes several hours, till the now relaxed bird stared to flap, the noise was the sign that the bird had regained its senses and was now able to fly on its own. To the door I would go and gently open the box toward the sky. A flurry of feathers and a bird flapping to distant trees was usually the last I would see of the bird. To prevent future bird strikes the company finally installed black outlines of a hawk in flight and the bird strikes were almost reduced to zero. I say almost because one day a fully grown Canada Goose weighing in excess of 25 Lbs. did not bounce off the window, it went thru the window breaking its neck. For the most part the hawk outlines did work. Jerry
Yikes! I am glad that I don't have that large of bird at my feeders. I would have put up a hawk or owl outline. But I as concerned that it would scare my birds away from my feeders which are only about 12ft. from my front window. I have heard of Turkeys trying to flying threw large windows before also. Hope they have come up with a better solution for those large windows. I guess we loose a lot of migrating song birds because they fly into buildings that have a lot of window spaces. To bad. :'( I have also rescued birds that have flown into my windows also.
You did a great job in putting it up....such a good thing to do for the birds to save a life. Even when they fly off after hitting windows, it could be bleeding internally.
Thank you. I really hate hearing and seeing them crash into the windows. I have it stretched pretty tight just in case they decide to try and fly threw. We so far I have had two downy woodpeckers do just that. But since they hit the stretched out netting first it breaks their speed and they only lightly thud into the window. So far so good though. No other birds flying into the window. The Morning doves where constantly flying into this window. Now no more dove strikes. :-D
