Bird Splat
Blake pointed me to this random weblog post that includes pictures of the imprint a bird left on a window after it went splat.
Surprisingly detailed.
We have a similar problem at Apple. Birds are semi-regularly flying into the windows on the main entrance of building 1. If you stand on the bridge in the atrium in the early afternoon sun (if any, these days), you can see several bird silohuettes.
Of course, I live in a glass house — an eichler — and bird strikes are pretty common. One of my neighbors has a problem with small flocks of birds getting drunk on rotting berries and then flying int their windows. I think the record is, like, 10 dead birds in an afternoon.
One last bird story — when in Columbia visiting my parents, a bird flew into the windows there. Not just any bird but either a hawk or a great blue heron. Whatever it was, it was big. Scared the crap out of me. Bird seemed OK, though.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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November 12th, 2007 at 2:05 am
where is Alfred Hitchcock when you need him?
November 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Hi,
Those pictures were incredible. That bird must’ve been very dusty.
About your own bird strikes, you might try using some visual scare devices that won’t obstruct your view. Something like Irri-tape: http://www.bird-x.com/products/itape.htm is pretty and will scare the birds away because it’s dynamic.
Good luck, hopefully you can cross “cleaning up bird imprints” permanently off your to-do list.
Jess D’Amico
Media Correspondent
http://www.bird-x.com
July 12th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I live in an Eichler too, and it just happened to me today. Birds have been going “ding” into the windows for years, but none of them have been fatal so far. But today the poor sparrow hit the window and then fell right to the ground with a broken neck.
I thought darkening the glass would have reduced these accidents, but apparently not so far. Still, I really love the design of the Eichler — I only use electric lights in the house in the evening.