How to Keep Birds from Flying into Your Windows

Impractical Solution: Stand in front of the window waving your arms about while reciting lines from Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Practical Solution: Close your blinds during normal hours of flight.

Impractical Solution: Remove all windows.

Practical Solution: Place bird feeders within three feet of windows so that birds leaving the feeder cannot accelerate to deadly speeds should they fly into the window.

Impractical Solution: Tether a housecat to a ledge at each window.  NOTE: Tethering a housecat is likely not practical in any present application.

Practical Solution: Install decorative window awnings.

--Mitchell Hegman