Birds throwing themselves against our window

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For the last ten minutes a pair of long tailed tits have been trying to get into our sitting room, including throwing themselves against the window. It’s a bit disconcerting. Has anyone else experienced this?

I was in my garden office and there are bushes opposite and the same happened to me. I realised that they must have been youngsters who were trying to rise up to the guttering but couldn’t quite make it. They did, eventually!

This often happens at work, so we have to stick some cardboard or a sheet of paper in the window until they stop.

Apparently they're trying to mate with their own reflections!

This. I've seen them do it to car wing mirrors :0

They think its another bird and so try to fight them and often end up hurting/killing themselves. Cover the window - close the curtains etc for a while. Its just during this time of year, not a permanent thing. Its also why having mirrors in a garden is a bad idea

I find birds fly into our patio doors at certain times of the day, presumably when the reflection/light is at a certain point.

Closing the blinds stops this.

Hope they are ok

We have sticker shapes of birds stuck on our windows as we had a spate of birds careering into our windows.

They seem to work.

I second the bird silhouette stickers. They're often bird of prey shaped, so the birds know to stay away.

Mine definitely seem to work too.

I don’t have this problem since I stopped cleaning my windows.

Thanks everyone. They are back again today. I think I might try the bird of prey stickers.

I have large birds (judging by the splat mark they leave behind) hitting my bifolds. I think they think they can just fly straight through.

I had a long tailed tit keep hitting the window (only gently not full force) and perch there for a second on the actual glass. I read they were catching little spiders 🤷🏻‍♀️
But I think full force is them attacking their reflection, as pps have said.

pigeons do this regularly on our windows. they see the sky reflected in the glass and don't realise there is glass there.

I have lots of 'birds of prey' stickers and some other almost-clear square ones that are meant to reduce bird strikes. order them from Amazon.

They think they're seeing other birds.

I put strips of gaffer tape all over my window, temporarily, to stop them.

An anecdote from a guy called in to advice on bird strikes on a modern prestigious company HQ. He advised bird of prey stickers “oh no, we couldn’t possibly sully the clean lines of the architecture”. Then came a Directors meeting followed by lavish lunch in front of a huge picture window. They watched in horror as a large bird flew hard into the window then slowly slid down leaving a mass of blood and feathers behind. Bird of prey stickers were authorised by the end of the afternoon!

Weirdest thing today - I work in an upstairs room and this morning was on a work zoom call when I heard something hit the window. It's a moorhen! A very confused moorhen, whose huge feet can barely fit on the window ledge, amorously tapping away at its reflection exactly as others have described here. I gently shoe it away and off it flies.

Very bizarre - there is a river nearby but I've never seen a moorhen in the garden.

We have ‘picture windows’. So far this month we have had a blackbird, a Robin, an owl ( left a very clear imprint) a coal tit and numerous pigeons banging into them.

Only the tit seemed damaged by the experience. I, on the other hand, nearly have a heart attack every time I hear the strike of doom.