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
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