Thread: Heard a bang on the window…..

Was in the kitchen …then heard this bang ! Thought someone was at the door…but saw no one. Then I sat down in the breezeway and just happened to notice this imprint of a bird on the glass door . I looked outside to see if tweety bird was dead…but found nothing….guess he made it.

Yep. Ive seen this many times in the past. My wife bought some reflective clear stickers for our windows and now it doesnt happen much at all. I think they see the reflection/colors on the glass and swoop away. You can find them on Amazon.

When I lived in England, we had an open fireplace that was never used because we were in a smokeless zone.
We had a TV aerial attached to the chimney breast and birds would obviously sit on it.
One day a bird must have fallen or got brave and came down the chimney into our living room.

What a mess, the bird was flyng round the room banging into the walls and window and leaving these sooty marks everywhere it touched, it also crapped all over the place.

I opened the windows but it was in too much of a state to fly out immediately, preferred to cover my wallpaper in soot I guess.

Have you ever tried to clean soot off your wallpaper, no MR Clean back then.

Two bird incidents at my grandmother's house when I was a kid. Once she and I were standing in her sitting room and just happened to be looking out her sliding glass door when some kind of songbird flew into it. BANG! It rattled the glass something proper and Mr. Tweety fell dead on the spot.

Another time she called and needed some help with a bird but wouldn't say exactly what. When we got there she and my uncle showed us in her laundry room, a screech owl had flown down the chimney and was perched on top of a shelf. She called us to help because we raised chickens and had become quite adept at catching them up with a fishing dip net. Of course owls fly better than chickens plus they are a raptor with dangerous claws and beak. It took a little doing and the little owl was not happy but he made it out okay.

A friend gave us one of those bird feeders with a suction cup to stick it to the window so you can watch the birds as they come for the seeds. Within 5 minutes of installing it, we had a bird crash into the window right where we mounted the feeder. I’m guessing there wasn’t much field testing of the design before it went into production.

That’s a pretty good bird print.

We get that on the large glass patio doors. Often times a bird is being chased by another bird and they aren't too observant in their panic.

Sometimes it's a glancing blow with a few feathers left behind and sometimes they break their necks.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

We get that on the large glass patio doors. Often times a bird is being chased by another bird and they aren't too observant in their panic.

Same here. Sometimes they're after a spider they see sliding down a thread.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

We get that on the large glass patio doors. Often times a bird is being chased by another bird and they aren't too observant in their panic.

Sometimes it's a glancing blow with a few feathers left behind and sometimes they break their necks.

Yup…it’s a patio window.