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By an edhat reader
I came home during my lunch and was shocked to find four dead birds on my patio (they’re 6″ from tip of beak to end of tail feathers).
It was the oddest formation they were and I’ve never seen anything like it, so I’m guessing they accidentally flew into my upstairs window. I guess I’m wondering if anyone can identify them, but I also didn’t know how to dispose of them or what to do with them – trash them? Bury them? Donate them to science? I wouldn’t know where to start.
Any information and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Get spade-tip shovel…dig 10-inch deep hole…pick birds up in shovel…place birds in hole….cover hole with the dirt you just dug up…say a prayer for each bird…wash hands…wash hands again.
So sad. Nice of you to be concerned about their disposal. The suggestion about Vector Control might be a good idea in case they had a bird virus.
Birds fly into windows with decals and ribbons and netting and all kinds of deterrents. Not necessary to guilt-trip the OP!
Dude, 8:00pm, relax. Do you need an aspirin? You seem a little fussy.
@155: Not where I live currently, but I have experienced a bird knock itself and fly away once at the home I grew up in, and also once or twice when I was in grade school AT school.
I guess one could equate your comment to driving a car, motorcycle, riding a bike, going at any fast velocity and having a bug smash into your window/helmet/mask, etc. That’s outrageous that you didn’t do anything to prevent such ‘incidental’ killing. BUT…I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, so, you know…
Lastly, I didn’t make the decision to build the condo (I wasn’t born when they were built) and I have tried other ways to prevent things like this from happening. But nature happens. We’re just in the way 😉
Whoa whoa whoa!
I don’t think anyone said this was a serial problem. As I understand it, it was an unusual and singular event. We have hummers that hit our windows often. I have hung things, blocked views, and yet, with their territorial antics, it doesn’t always stop them from “thumping” on the windows. There is no way that you can blame someone, living in a house for a die-off of birds, just because they have… windows. I had a sharp-shinned hawk fly into my house, through the door, after a small bird outside the window on the other side of the house. He crashed into the window – inside – and was fine. Should I be netting my house? Perhaps the property? Oh, wait… I smell a troll. My bad, fell for it.