Bird Strike Deterrent

Hello fellow bird watchers. Once in a while, a bird slams into one of our dining room windows. We always run outside, scoop them up, and hold them until they're ready to fly away. Nearly all of them live, but we still feel awful about it. So, this morning I used some scraps of clear vinyl (approximately .004" thick - bought it at JoAnn's) left over from another project and a black marker and made two of these:

The vinyl is really transparent and I had to take more than one photo to make it show so you could see it. When you're in the dining room, you sort of look through the webs and hardly notice them. The vinyl sticks to the windows by itself, just like a screen protector on an iPad, without any adhesive. Our hope is the birds will see the webs and choose a different route.  I mean, who doesn't hate running into a spider web, right?