Oh, Goody

Somebody wants to be your new window police.

We are looking for ALL information about birds hitting windows…. How many hit and FLY AWAY; How many hit and DIE, and, of course, please bring us your INJURED birds!!
CALL us, or the WBU store (306-955-2473) to report a “window strike”! (Date, address, species, outcome?)
 
We will be tracking this data to more fully understand the number of birds impacted by unprotected windows, with the hope that we can advocate for change in the future!!

I wonder what “change” they have in mind?

55 Replies to “Oh, Goody”

      1. Another Ian: Exactly!! WHERE WAS THE STUDY ON WIND TURBINES…killing birds everyday by the dozens, hundreds maybe millions!

  1. How many birds fly into the windows of these various enviromentalists groups and animal rights idiots HEY GREENPEACE HOW MANY BIRDS ARE LOST TO YOUR WINDOWS hey PETA jerks how many birds are lost just so you can eat your veggies or enjoy your garden burgers how many nesting birds are mauled up in a harvest so you can stuff your fat faces how many birds are losing their eggs to introduced rats on thse islands I in favor of totaly exterminating the rats from the islands SAVE A BIRD KILL A RAT

      1. You beat me to it. The windmills are doing most of the dirty work.

        When enough birds are killed, the rodents and insects that birds live on, will now be unfettered as they eat our crops.

  2. Live near a windmill?

    Report all the birds hit and killed or injured by the windmills to WBU.

  3. How can people prevent birds from flying into their picture windows ?

    1 1/4 ounces of #6 birdshot ought to do it.

    If it’s deer running into your picture window. Then switch to buckshot.

    you’re welcome

  4. Years ago, a bird flew past me and brained itself on a shopfront window, falling dead near me. I felt like the angel of death, but consoled myself that this is one reason why being called a birdbrain isn’t a compliment.

    Dinosaurs can’t have been very smart if birds are their heirs…

    Oh, and good luck with the kind of protection ideas peta or greenwar would come up with…

  5. birds see a reflection of their environment and think that they are just flying into another space. in one of my homes the large blue spruce trees were reflected in the window and many birds hit my living room window, some died some didn’t.

    1. I have a clear plastic twirly thing hanging in front of my large kitchen window. It moves with the slightest of breezes and keeps birds from flying into the window.

  6. Well, she’s a little shy on government funding.

    CRA says that in 2017 she only got $14,895 from the feds, $3,500 from Saskatchewan, and another measly $1,000 from municipal sources.

    I have a suggestion for her. If she postulates that these bird strikes are related to climate change and gets some drum-pounding Indians wreathed in sweetgrass smoke on board, her government grant cups will runneth over.

    But maybe she’s already thought of that…

  7. I would like to sign up to do the carcass count at the base of a windmill! Is there a way I can get a key for the security fence and a security pass? I’d like to start ASAP, as the migration starts…

  8. Sorry. The solution is obvious – no more windows. And no more lightbulbs – all interior spaces must be lit by candles.

    Bastiat would be so cynically proud…

  9. I am sure the greater bird community could benefit from some advocacy. You know, to counter the racist and bigoted alt wing faction that wants to fly into windows and make messy statements against the white home owner. As long as these wack-jobs are not “chirping” at me.

  10. Even though I am hard right cuss, I like birds and I like good science. I feed the little bastards year round and put up boxes to attract and keep bird families.
    I would find this information interesting and if there are some simple things we can do to help our little feathered friends along then I am happy to do it.
    Interestingly, with a all the birds I have, I rarely get any bird strikes. Be interesting to know why.
    The birdshot I will still keep dry for any animal rights clown that wants to tell me to get rid of my massive picture windows that look out to my gardens and ponds.

  11. Well, unlike a silly oil company, if a duck killed itself hitting my window, I would install a power windmill in front of every window before telling anyone. Will that be cheaper than paying whatever indulgence they will propose?

  12. I have a different problem, my outdoor window viewing bird feeder has these Titmouse gangs, Titmouse, Chickadees and Nuthatches who when the feeder is empty land on my window trim and peck at the glass until I refill the feeder.
    I don’t help the situation by complying to their demands and fill the feeders back up!

  13. How many birds are lost to wind turbines and Solar Panels just so some Eco-Wackos can watch their fake AL GORE and LEONARDO DiCAPRIO fake documentries

  14. I looked up to the clear blue sky
    And a little bird shat in my eye
    Now I thank God that cows don’t fly.

  15. “Dinosaurs can’t have been very smart if birds are their heirs…”
    Not all birds are dumb asses. Birds of the corvidae family (crows ravens etc.) rarely fly into your windows or your car.

  16. I suspect this problem is unique to Saskatchewan where the birds must fly at very high speeds for days at a time to reach the next tree.

  17. This is an old problem with a simple solution; when the Ontario Science Centre built their glass walkway across the ravine they had terrible problems.

    You just put some black raptor silhouette stickers on the windows and the birds stay away.

  18. Yep that’s what’s needed – giving academics more power to confine our lives:

    https://globalnews.ca/news/4403821/drive-thru-ban-study-university-alberta/

    I was listening on the radio yesterday to one of the publishing profs preaching her study. She’s looking for a total ban on drive thru’s. The prof admitted that economics (it figures) were not part of the study. Their logic is: “If nobody has a drive-thru, then it doesn’t have an economic impact, because it’s fair for everyone.” Definitely a unique take on the word “fair” (like the wolf telling the three little pigs they can only build straw houses).

    That tells me two things immediately – the people behind the study have no interest in knowing what the negative effects are from their ideologically driven rules and that they’re after total control over everyone’s daily lives including small details like how we get our meals. Gotta love the never-ending no middle ground social engineering push of our public funded progressive elite. They’ll make the pleibs do as they’re told. Or else…

    1. A protected window will be one that does not exist. They’ll impose a new “window tax” and all the windows will be bricked up to evade the tax. Of course, the Left will have projected the massive income from the window-tax, and will have already spent it before they realize there aren’t nearly as many windows as they had planned on.

      1. The British tried a window tax at some point. Many windows disappeared. But I guess a real window tax has never been tried before, and this time will work better. Or something.

  19. Let us see now.
    How would this work?
    Hmm ….. there could be a lot of cash coming in from the folks.

    Probably some characters that went to school for a long time, got themselves diplomas and can’t find actual work.
    Hmm ….. but they went after their dream.

    They, apparently want to go to a time where you don’t have glass windows.
    Hmm ….. what could it be?
    Yes, they will come up with an idea and sell it to the government to get in on the scam ……. not unlike AGW.

    Hmm ….. a clever scheme to make a lot of money and do nothing. Maybe write pamphlets that will spin a likely story.

  20. As you’ve said many times before, Kate, they won’t be happy until we [that is, the deplorables] are all living in caves without so much as a candle for light and heat.

    This is simply another tactic to achieve that goal.

  21. Let us see now.
    How would this work?
    Hmm ….. there could be a lot of cash coming in from the folks.

    Probably some characters that went to school for a long time, got themselves diplomas in gender studies or some such and can’t find actual work.
    Hmm ….. but they went after their dream.

    They, apparently want to go to a time where you don’t have glass windows.
    Hmm ….. what could it be?
    Yes, they will come up with an idea and sell it to the government to get in on the scam ……. not unlike AGW.

    Hmm ….. a clever scheme to make a lot of money and do nothing. Maybe write pamphlets that will spin a likely story.

    Hmm ….. maybe they will come up with something that will make the birds to live forever.

  22. A window tax.

    the more windows you have and the larger your windows the more tax you would pay.

    or maybe the tax would be based on how clean ( and reflective ) your windows are

    if they are squeekly clean and birds see trees and blue skies reflected in them, you pay the full tax.

    give libtards a couple years and this will become reality, probably first in California then in some libtard spot in Canada like Montreal , Toronto or Vancouver.

    libtards will not stop until there is nothing left to destroy with their insanity in Western Civilisation

  23. I feed the birds regularly using decent grains and seeds selected for that purpose.
    I have TWO bird baths which are almost daily hosed and refilled.
    next step: get a hummingbird feeder. saw THREE of them at once for the first time @ a buddy’s place on the weekend.

    wtf is so goddamned bad about participation in a project to assess bird fatalities?
    lots of winged creatures laying dead at the base of the 80 foot slice and dicers, but that is a separate (related) situation.

    1. @ 11:59 historybuff

      Hummingbirds will come your way if you plant red geraniums or anything that has a red blossom. I had ~ 15 plants, at long last success! Finally!

      P.S. You can winter geraniums indoors near a sunny window, like a houseplant. They will be enjoyable to look at, especially during and after a long winter too!

      1. — FULL Disclosure with Tongue in Cheek:
        I wish to add that reporting your lost birds to these people at this telephone number could possibly result in a new construction By- law. The new code for Home / Business Builders may outlaw putting windows at ninety degree angles. Secondly, it could enforce mirrored triple or quadrupled glazed low ‘ e ‘ windows as a standard. Failing which, the New Dwelling Warranty will be null and void and the dwelling will be declared condemned without compensation from said Builder or Authorities. The birds might fall in love with their own images and one might need special eyeglasses to look outside, but this would be permissible for the greater good of society.

        [I won’t report my losses. Okay, I’ll tell you nice folks though. My losses are 2 sparrows, due to the 90° factor, 20 years apart. I like lots of windows]

  24. In every window, an enlarged photo of turdoo. …bonus points for combining it with a PA spouting any speeches he has made. Nothing can fly and hurl at the same time.

  25. At her Facebook page, she’s responded to my comment (and another’s) that this is regarding windows only, not wind generation turbines. My comment and the other’s were quite civil, but are now deleted, with Kate mentioning that deleting comments will not help their cause.

    Well, back to 2 comments on her post. I guess that’s plenty enough notice for the day’s post…

    I’m reminded of the recent hysteria over plastic drinking straws being banned to save an ocean. But don’t mention that 75% of ocean waste is from Asia, and straws are about 0.5% of plastic that are not always recycled or buried “safely” in landfills.

  26. About 30 years ago a bird hit my picture window and died. What happened was I had left the drapes open, and the drapes open in a nearby windows, and the bird-brain thought he could fly through both windows. So from that point on I kept at least one of the windows draped. Also, I have long advocated that cat owners bell their cats, to avoid attacks on birds. Also, we should shut all wind farms down…

  27. A Post-it note in the middle of a window will deter birds from crashing into them. This is my father in law’s solution, anyway. Seems to work, if you don’t mind a Post-it note in the middle of your windows, that is.

  28. We generally don’t have birds crashing into our windows, except the waxwings. They flock to our crabapple tree, particularly once we’ve had a hard frost and the crabs are partly fermented. We keep the blinds partially closed to minimize collisions, but it’s fun to watch the birds weave their way back to their perches.

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