[birdky] window strikes

We had many window strikes last year and have no feeders.  Toward the end of 
the nesting season, we found a yellow-billed cuckoo dead next to a small 
window. 

This year I have placed little items on some windows, but have put up screens 
on all windows which open. On the picture window, my husband wedged sticks of 
wood between the brick on both sides of the window at the top and bottom. He 
attached string to both the bottom and top pieces of wood. We had no problem 
until one day I heard a thud and noticed that one of the sticks had broken and 
our rig was on the ground. We fixed it immediately and have had no further 
problems. 

Think we found that information on the Internet or Cornell Lab of 
Ornithology. Information said that the birds saw the reflection of trees in the 
windows 
and they were aiming for that.

I would do anything, no matter how unsightly, to avoid finding another 
beautiful bird dead under our windows.

Also, we have had Loggerhead Shrikes nesting in our area. Have a neighbor 
with a nest in her tree that she throws out because the bird is MESSY!

Judy Arnold
Western Shelby County, KY
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