We often find birds on the deck near our sliding windows

Occasionally they are alive and winded

Hyperventilating and desperately trying to recover

Before a predator snaps them up

I stand guard over the winded ones until they fly away

Sadly we find most of them already expired

I looked up ways to prevent these unintended bird collisions

The first suggestion was to put blue tape on the windows

Start with tape from corner to corner making a big X

Then tape a vertical cross to make a big star symbol

The sort of thing people do in pending hurricanes

As if the howling wind is somehow repelled by blue markings

I am not sure if it works for either case but I will not be trying it

The next suggestion was to cover the glass with soapy water

The theory being that all those bubbles will make the surface more visible to birds

I this case you will get the added bonus of cleaning your windows

Sort of like killing two birds with one stone

Or should that be killing no birds with two bubbles

I will not be trying that either because soap bubbles soon slide off glass

It would be much better to capture a few birds

Form a class and teach them all to read

Once they are all good readers

Send them to teacher training classes

Release them so they can teach all the other birds read

Then put up a small sign in the yard

Beware Of Flying Into The Sliding Glass Doors

No more dead birds on the deck

Add an accessory to your bird feeder

Miniature clip on books creating a bird reader

Bird literacy rates will soar

Killing no birds with just a few words