[EBB Sightings] Red-naped Sapsucker in Oakland

After a two window killed birds at Watershed Headquarters in Orinda, we
installed raptor silhouettes on some windows and leaf silhouettes on
others. 
It isn't much, just enough to show them it isn't a forest through-way.
Both methods worked as we have had no other window kills in five years


Roger Hartwell
Supervising Fisheries and Wildlife Biologist 
East Bay Municipal Utility District
500 San Pablo Dam Road
Orinda, CA 94563
(510) 287-2025 
(707) 738-2259 cell


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[mailto:sightings-bounces at diabloaudubon.com] On Behalf Of Hilary Powers
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [EBB Sightings] Red-naped Sapsucker in Oakland

Rnvbar at cs.com wrote:
> NOTE: Our picture windows now have screens to avoid bird strikes
> (works well) but now we will have to create a screen for the door.

David Sibley - yes, THAT David Sibley - recently discovered that you can

almost totally eliminate window strikes by cross-hatching the window 
with a yellow hiliter. Virtually invisible to humans, the marks radiate 
strongly in ultraviolet and the birds no longer react to the window as 
open space.

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