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Letter: Clear blue sky

Published 11 June 2014

From John Stolarski

Valerie Moyses writes of “kamikaze” pigeons crashing into her bedroom window (24 May, p 33). I had the same problem.

Having seen stickers in the shape of birds of prey attached to a transparent noise barrier at the side of a Polish highway, I found a source of these stickers in the UK.

Before I had time to affix them, I got rid of a tall mirror from the back of my bedroom. The pigeon strikes stopped.

I think the reflection of clear sky in the mirror made the birds believe there was a way through the room. Perhaps I shouldn’t clean my windows so obsessively.
Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK

Issue no. 2973 published 14 June 2014

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