Need help with birds flying into my windows.

[jojo54]

I'm posting this in several groups because I don't know if there will be much help. We have a sunroom with windows on 3 sides, one which is a big bay window. We have lots of birds around here-I suppose it's my fault because I feed them twice a week. Mostly it's mourning doves that fly into the windows and I know that they do it because they're seeing their reflections or the other birds through the opposite window. Fortunately, 99% of the time, they survive.

So, does anyone have any ideas on how to keep them from thinking the windows are a throughway? Any idea will be taken into consideration because I'm desperate. Thanks in advance.

Jo

[Warpy]

1. Get a flat cat

It's a photograph of a tabby cat on cardboard. I got one for my parents when they had an amorous woodpecker doing the same thing during their mating season, challenging the reflection he saw in the window. Seeing the cat behind the reflection discouraged him very nicely.

[troubleinwinter]

4. We had a cat

that constantly jumped onto the desk when we were'nt home, walked on the answering machine, pushing the buttons, then recorded a couple of hours of him cleaning himself and napping.

We stood a Flat Cat on the answering machine and he never got near it again.

He was kind of a dumb cat.

[trotsky]

2. Also there are many options in window decals.

Some that only reflect UV light - so you only barely see them, but they're visible to birds.

Just do a search on "bird window decals" and there's lots of hits.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Lots of info and options

at this google link:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=%22how+to%22+stop+birds+flying+into+windows&hl=en&suggon=0&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&cr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images

[phylny]

5. Featherguard

The last time I read up on this on DU, someone recommended Featherguard. Here's the website:

http://featherguard.com/