Kamikazi Pigeons

We have a lot of birds, but I don’t recall one ever flying into our windows.

That is awfully strange, where are the pigeons coming from? A neighbor with pigeons?

Dumb pigeons? My piano song Little Bird is inspired by a sparrow who decided to do the same thing at my friend's house. I was able to save the little guy from interested kitties. He eventually flew off. Have you seen/heard it? There's a picture of me with a dazed sparrow on my finger at the end.

Thankfully we only have little birds knocking themselves out on our windows. Of course, that's bad enough but a big bird might break the glass.

I've read a news article about a request to high rise buildings in the U.S. for them to put out their lights at a specific time period during the night because thousands of migratory birds passing through certain areas die because they smash through the windows because of the light coming from the inside. The birds think they can pass through or they see the reflection of the sky. I just can't remember the specific states where the request has been addressed to. Many have complied though.

They can be pesky for sure. What a mess they can make. Thankfully we don't get those here, but I see them when I go out.

This used to happen quite often at our previous house where we had a conservatory with large windows and a sparrow hawk used to occasionally chase the pigeons our of the trees in the garden. I think that the pigeons, seeing the reflection of the trees and the sky, simply think that its a place they can escape to safety and blunder into the windows leaving a greasy angel smear. Sometimes they break their necks (and the hawk gets his dinner). Since we have lived in our current house (which is in a city-village and not really near any fields) the pigeons seem to be more aware and we haven't had any incidents except for a stray pheasant which somehow managed to fly into the window of our neighbour's upstairs flat, broke its neck and fell onto the ground below. My neighbour looked at it and didn't want to deal with it so he gave it to me. I didn't much want to deal with it, either - the whole business of plucking and drawing a bird is outside of my comfort zone - so, after asking around, I took it to a local butcher who agreed to do it for me. A day or so later, I picked up the bird. Birds without their feathers are a lot smaller than you think and this was no bigger than you'd imagine a largish crow to be! There wasn't a lot of meat on it. Anyway, I cooked it, relieved it of the flesh and, with quite a lot of help from some liver, made a paté from it. It turned out quite well and did us for a couple of lunches. Of course, I gave half of it to my neighbour, whose window it had sullied!

Poor pigeons...I would hate to have that happening here. I have the grids on the windows though so they don't think it is open air space. I am sure that helps immeasurably.

Last year one flew straight through the window onto the floor a young one. I managed to get the brush head underneath him and he perched on there and flew out into the open. Oh my goodness I was more scared that he could not fly than he was himself he was perfect

Can you clean it by using a water hose.

oh my, poor pigeons.

Ugh! We don’t have pigeons in our yard, but we occasionally have that happen with birds.

Yes, some days are past. I still have in mind your riding a horse with nonchalance.

What an awesome photo! Sometimes, pigeons are coming on my balcony. Every time I want to take photo of the pigeon,it flies away.

I know we've had some little sparrow type birds smacking themselves into our windows, but they seem to be ok and fly away thereafter. But oh, pigeons !

Those poor birds.

That's happened to us a couple of times, birds flying into our clear sunroom window and killing themselves. It's quite sad.

I cannot understand the reason, we only had an accident with a dove, it did not kill itself, but it flew in the window of our French door in the dining room.

I hope they quit bothering your windows. Sometimes we use extendable poles for higher windows when or ladder guy is busy.

I'm sorry the pigeons have flown into your windows. I hope it won't cost too much for a window cleaner.