WHACK!!!

[diy_fun_uk]

Sitting at my computer in my lounge/diner, up in the 'dining room' part so can't see the lounge window.

WHACK!!!

I knew straight away what the noise had been, however was on a call and couldn't get up straight away to investigate. Few minutes later I investigated, sure enough the perfect mark of a bird on my lounge window. Looked out the window to see a bird (small hawk or something) tucking into the other (dead) bird.

Considered my options, if I'd been out I'd be none the wiser so I could have left it. Thought better of it and went out, off flew the bird none too happy at being disrupted. Dead bird bagged and binned. It already had a fair chunk out of it

 

[noseall]

Sitting at my computer in my lounge/diner, up in the 'dining room' part so can't see the lounge window.

WHACK!!!

I knew straight away what the noise had been, however was on a call and couldn't get up straight away to investigate. Few minutes later I investigated, sure enough the perfect mark of a bird on my lounge window. Looked out the window to see a bird (small hawk or something) tucking into the other (dead) bird.

Considered my options, if I'd been out I'd be none the wiser so I could have left it. Thought better of it and went out, off flew the bird none too happy at being disrupted. Dead bird bagged and binned. It already had a fair chunk out of it

We regularly have them prang our bedroom window and have marks on the window presently. Some die from the impact others survive and fly off. Its usually when the windows are nice and clean and reflective, usually on a sunny day.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Also get bird strikes on the upstairs bedroom windows at the back. Usually wood pigeons - being big buggers they make quite a bang. Normally fly straight off, no doubt a bit dazed and stunned. Often leave a near perfect mark on window of the bird with wings outstretched.

 

[festive]

Sitting at my computer in my lounge/diner, up in the 'dining room' part so can't see the lounge window.

WHACK!!!

I knew straight away what the noise had been, however was on a call and couldn't get up straight away to investigate. Few minutes later I investigated, sure enough the perfect mark of a bird on my lounge window. Looked out the window to see a bird (small hawk or something) tucking into the other (dead) bird.

Considered my options, if I'd been out I'd be none the wiser so I could have left it. Thought better of it and went out, off flew the bird none too happy at being disrupted. Dead bird bagged and binned. It already had a fair chunk out of it

Oh would have let said bird finish it's meal at least, is that cruel when its dead already and became part of food chain, the 'cleaners' would have been along shortly after to recycle it via maggots and decomposition i doubt dead mutilated bird would thank you?
I get them hit my office lots normally round spring time for some reason 'thud' mostly in the mornings, sad when they die but a joy when you nurture them back from shock and they fly off again.

 

[Andydevon]

Most likely a Sparrow Hawk chasing the bird into the window. They do then start eating them before dispatching them. Nature is cruel.

 

[Mottie]

Its usually when the windows are nice and clean and reflective, usually on a sunny day.

Same here. Usually just after the window cleaner has been. Was worse when we had no blinds upstairs and floral print wallpaper. Would leave a perfect feather dander imprint on the glass. You could even make out the imprint of the vanes in the feathers.

 

[crystal ball]

Most likely a Sparrow Hawk chasing the bird into the window. They do then start eating them before dispatching them. Nature is cruel.

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We regularly have a Sparrow Hawk doing a swoop through our garden, it catches the occasional Pigeon and devours it in full view

Red in tooth and claw

 

[diy_fun_uk]

It was a fair whack so I knew it wasn't a small bird. I am (probably unreasonably so) paranoid about touching dead animals so I donned a glove to pick it up and hands washed three times after! Yes there's an outline of a bird on the window.

Only had it once before in the 14 or so years I've lived here. Last house happened quite a few times.

It does give you a fright as it's unexpected and loud!

There are feathers everywhere in my front garden!

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Most likely a Sparrow Hawk chasing the bird into the window. They do then start eating them before dispatching them. Nature is cruel.

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Yes that looks like it. I think it came back and was none too happy. Heard something squawking away when I came back inside.

 

[Munroast]

why didn't you let it eat it? it will need to go and kill another one now. Sending the dead one off for land fill must have been your worst possible reaction.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

There are feathers everywhere in my front garden!

We have a large back garden, and every few days, there will be feathers scattered around it. We often get birds crashing into the window, most often the front, downstairs, and most often in the early summer. I guess it's usually the younger birds, not yet found out, that windows are hard.

This year, we have been inundated, for some reason, with red kites, over much of the village, but it seemed centred on my place. Avril claimed to have perhaps spotted one nest, in the nature reserve, next door.

 

[johnny2007]

So you interfered with nature by putting up a building with invisible barriers in it.
Then again, deprived a natural predator of its well earned meal.
Double shot at nature.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

So you interfered with nature by putting up a building with invisible barriers in it.
Then again, deprived a natural predator of its well earned meal.
Double shot at nature.

Nope. Didn't build the house I live in. Nor the dozens that surround it

 

[aveatry]

A few years ago on a new extension the glass is some sort of E coat and is very reflective from the outside and a bird must of thought it was a hole, I heard a bang but it was only at night when the security light came on and the glare hits the window that we could see the imprint left behind -- its almost perfect like a holagram here

 

[Koolpc]

I once rescued a sparrow being attacked by several magpies. He was knocked out! So i picked him up and took him to a place he could recover, of which he did and flew off.....