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Old 27-03-2007, 09:45 AM
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Re: Question for a bird expert

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Originally Posted by agrumpycow View Post
I once noticed the outline of a bird on my bedroom window, it looked as if the poor idiot had taken a nose dive at my window and whacked into it leaving a greasy mark at the impact - feet up, beak down!! It looked the size of a pigeon and we found no evidence of it's demise on the ground inderneath so it seems to have got away with it! You could even see the claw marks! Strange creatures
I don't think they do it on purpose! They genuinely think they are flying towards further habitat and empty space, I know how much it can hurt just walking into a patio door (haven't most of us doen that? Or is it just me? )
I can't imaging how much it much hurt to fly at full speed into one....

I found a woodpigeon with a broken neck on the ground where it had flown into the window at a friend's house, it was the third bird to fly into that particular window, when I went outside and tried to look at the window with a bird's eye I could see that the large mirror on the inside opposite wall did indeed look like more garden beyond the room, when the mirror was moved no more collisions
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