I have had this happen several times on my bedroom window, not by an owl, but by a smaller bird. No way to tell what it was at my house. Wish I had thought about taking a picture, I will next time.
Birds hit my windows all the time but rarely leave a mark. Often times it kills them.
One night I was sitting in my loft when I heard a large “whomp” and the canary that lived on the window sill downstairs (a window with no curtains) started going nuts. I looked at it, trying to figure out what was going on and there was another large “whomp” and the canary fell to the bottom of the cage, with it’s feet pointed in the air like it was dead.
I watched more closely, and all of a sudden, there was a third “whomp” and I saw an owl, in exactly that pose, trying to get the canary, but hitting the window.
He gave up after that, but the next day I found my suet feeder a hundred feet from its tree, smashed on the ground. We figured the owl gave up on the canary and snatched a flying squirrel on the suet feeder instead. He must have grabbed the feeder at the same time, and dropped it from his quite high roost where he enjoyed his dinner.
Was he really dusty or something?
That is cool though. (Ouch.)
In the evening after we had our windows got a sparkling clean this spring, we heard a loud thud and saw the imprint of a pidgeon on our window. The next day I found the bird’s carcas riddled with ants under a shrub several yards away from where it probably fell after the impact. I suppose an army of ants could cary a stunned or dead bird quite a long way, or they may have done it with the help of a rodent.
Ouch! Poor owl.
At least she didn’t say it looked like Jesus.
Owls are notoriously non-graceful. I’ve seen some owls look pretty stupid when they try to land. They are not that wise.
Got home tonight and found out a flying rat (pigeon) did a face plant against my daughters window.
It looks like Jesus.
