Re: Sibley on birds and windows

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:30:19 -0500, "3Putt from CoastalSouth Carolina"
<3putt@PawleysIslandSC> wrote:

I would take a wild guess that more birds are killed by raptors and tall
buildings than by striking windows in houses. I remember back a few years
ago there was some ridiculous report that cats killed more than 3,000,000
wild birds in Minnesota in a one year period. Off topic, but I was in West
Virginia last week. Opening day for hunting Deer killed: 10, hunters
accidentally shot: 11 But they I saw plenty of road kill along the
Interstate because hunters were flushing they out of the woods. ( I have
nothing against hunting)...


<jerry_friedman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Nov 26, 8:16 am, jerry_fried...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Have people seen this blog post by David Sibley on ways of keeping
birds from hitting windows? The promising possibility he's found is
marking a grid on the window with fluorescent yellow highlighter.

http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/2007/11/simple-method-for-bird-proof...

More research is needed, though.

And maybe I should add that he says the best solution, for those who
want to spend the money, is something called the Bird Screen.

--
Jerry Friedman

I think we have had the discussion on the pros and cons of hunting
before but I guess there is always more to add. I too live in the
land of the "hunter." As a matter of fact, I am going to dinner
tonight at a friends house and the menu will be venison and grouse.
Grouse would be a life bird for me so I wish he had brought back a
live one! I guess you really can't count dinner. Oh well. I know we
have a surplus of deer here in SC and in many parts of the country
they have become a real problem--not just for people but for
themselves as they run out of food. My friend says he never sees a
skinny deer here so starvation is not a problem but would be if they
were not culled. However, he has recently been very upset about
"Northerners" who come here for the deer season and rather than be
"sportsmen" just slaughter what ever moves. A couple of his friends
from Maine were here and in just a couple of days killed 10. He was
particullary upset over a small buck with nubs that one of them shot
after he had already killed two bigger bucks that day. But, I guess
there are" hunters" and then there are hunters in any part of the
country. Even the Audubon Society says that they need to be
culled--that too many deer have a devistating effect on other wildlife
even birds.

Mary Ann
Barnwell, SC
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