The Zeiger Family Homestead Blog

Our cabin has two large, beautiful picture windows that unfortunately present a hazard to our local birds. One window, in particular, seems to be a problem. Most of our bird strikes hit that window rather than the others. This week we took steps to solve the problem by making and hanging hawk silhouettes for that window.

We could have drawn our own silhouettes, I suppose, but I decided to download templates from hawkmountain.org, where they have a PDF document, “Helpful Hawks.” Ideally, I’d like to cut these out of static cling film, but that’s not easy to come by here, and rather expensive. Instead, we used craft sheets of closed-cell foam left over from updating our Halloween decorations last year.

Hawkmountain.org's paper templates laid out on closed-cell foam (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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