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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Chris A on February 12, 2007, 06:34:59 pm

Title: Stupid pigeon
Post by: Chris A on February 12, 2007, 06:34:59 pm

Bet he's got a headache

Title: Re: Stupid pigeon
Post by: windolene on February 12, 2007, 06:42:47 pm

Hi,


Good post.  showed all in house.

Kevin WINDOLENE

Title: Re: Stupid pigeon
Post by: Ian Lancaster on February 12, 2007, 06:55:59 pm

I've seen this many times.  If birds can see through a building, they think they can fly through it - they don't see the glass.

Their feathers are covered in dust, and the shock of the impact shakes the dust off onto the glass.  Sometimes the detail is amazing - you can see every feather in perfect outline.

Doesn't seem to do the birds a lot of harm, I've never found a dead one on the ground under the strike.

Title: Re: Stupid pigeon
Post by: Tosh on February 12, 2007, 07:00:11 pm

Quote from: Ian Lancaster on February 12, 2007, 06:55:59 pm

Doesn't seem to do the birds a lot of harm, I've never found a dead one on the ground under the strike.

I do a house in the country-side and nine out of ten times there's a bird-strike on the patio doors; there's a big window on the opposite side of the house; so I guess the birds think there's a 'tunnel' there.

The owner says the birds generally 'shake themselves down' and fly off.

I tell 'em it's 'cos we keep the windows so clean. ;D

Title: Re: Stupid pigeon
Post by: Nick_Thompson on February 12, 2007, 08:36:22 pm

Hi

I too come across bird strikes at least one a week but, curiously enough, I can’t remember seeing a single one in the early 80's when i first started cleaning windows.

Further to this observation, we had a small bird last summer that spent at least half its day repeatedly flying into the same window over and over again for six months.

Pesticide poisoning perhaps?

Nick