Unfortunately hawk silhouettes and other rather widely-spaced items placed
on glass windows have been found only marginally effective in preventing
bird strikes, although they probably help. I recently purchased some
ultraviolet sticky patches which birds can see (but I can't) -- however they
have the same down-side in that they are widely spaced. I keep the blinds on
our sun porch drawn (but with slats open) and this also helps but wondered
if anyone had any other suggestions.

I know that some have suggested drawing closely-spaced vertical lines on the
glass with a yellow highlighter (which again, birds see in the UV but are
almost invisible to us). Has anyone tried this?

Other thoughts?

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD

on 10/09/2010 9:37 PM, sharon schwemmer at  wrote:

> Alas,
> 
> My son came home around 5PM today to find a GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH dead on the
> deck with pokeberry juice dripping from its beak. It had an unfortunate run
> in with the sliding door, which I might add, has several hawk silhouettes
> all over it.  :(
> 
> 
> 
> Sharon Schwemmer
> Hampstead, MD
> swschwemmer at verizon dot net