Anyone had issues with glass windows?

[jusdeb]

Any new birds here going into a suspended aviary get a battery op night light for the first few weeks , dont know why but the wire beneath them ( well my theory ) disorients them at first .
Any birds that look a bit how do or have been skitty at night get a night light also , probly overkill but if nothing else it gives me piece of mind.

[Diane]

I use 2 solar powered lights in the main aviary. Each pack comes with one solar collector and two lights, they are both in the main aviary at the moment but I will be changing the layout slightly once I get the new aviary set up. Then will be using the same type to night light the other two aviaries. Two solar collectors, one light in each of the four aviaries.

[natamambo]

Why not put wire on the inside as well and put the inside wire on a hinged frame. That way you can open it but the birds are protected from the glass. Would also provide a layer to prevent attack from other predators like butcher birds while the windows were open.

[SamDavis]

Why not put wire on the inside as well and put the inside wire on a hinged frame. That way you can open it but the birds are protected from the glass. Would also provide a layer to prevent attack from other predators like butcher birds while the windows were open.

Probably the safest option, I suppose. I could just hinge at the top, then the weight of the frame would hold it closed - should be easy to flip up the frame to open close the window.

I use 2 solar powered lights in the main aviary. Each pack comes with one solar collector and two lights, they are both in the main aviary at the moment but I will be changing the layout slightly once I get the new aviary set up. Then will be using the same type to night light the other two aviaries. Two solar collectors, one light in each of the four aviaries.

I might add small night lights as well. I've got power in the shed, but the cheap solar ones would be simpler. How long do they stay on each night?

There's a pair of tricolor parrot finches and diamonds on eggs in this aviary. I'd hate to lose one of them!

I'm sure I've seen people's aviaries that just have glass windows with no wire (and some overseas pics of all glass aviaries). I wonder how they cope? Perhaps the aviary is smaller so the birds don't get up to suicide speed?

[BENSONSAN]

Sorry to hear that sam. Its a tough one! i agree tho with putting something on it so they can see it. Also my fingers are crossed for your diamonds and tri colours.

[VR1Ton]

I have a freind with an aviary built on the side of his house, full width, with 3 or 4 windows in it. The aviary is full of several thousand dollars worth of softbills & native pigeons. The only problem he had wa a pair of handreared White-headed Pigeons that would try to land on his sholder while he was sitting down eating his breaky at the diningroom table, took them a couple of weeks to figure out when the widow was open (not the smartest bird in the book, mind you), but all others wouldn't even try to go through them, Bowerbirds, Glossy Starlings, Pekin Robins, wrens & honeyeaters all intact.

[E Orix]

The Star you lost probably died from cerebal hemorage(spelling????) any way blood clot on the brain.
Should it happen again and I hope not, pull the feathers from the top of the head and you can often see the blood clot under the skin.
It won't help the bird but at least it gives you an idea of how it died.
Windows in an aviary court disaster UNLESS you put wire between the glass and your birds. I have two big windows looking out from my bird room and they have the one way film on them so I do not have a major problem. Birds in particularly young ones will fly into them but as they are not doing it in panic mode then the collision is not serious.

[Diane]

Cost $40 from Bunnings. After being fully charged they stay on all night, well Ive seen them still on at 4.30am thanks to the pup

Edited....found the box in the shed, they are called Solar Magic

[shox]

Sorry about delay getting back, kids sport. Exaclty orix major problems windows without wire on inside. The reason I ask the size and direction, I would put wire on the inside, but would also have shade cloth that you could roll down when having young birds. It will assist in the reduction of injury, allow light into the aviary due to your aspect. It will also help in reducing the heat from the magnifying on glass in summer when obscene temperatures are about.

[E Orix]

I have just had an issue with my aviary lights.
Through out my flights I have some twenty fluo lights which come on via a time clock, On at sunset. off sunrise
Over the last hour 8.30 to 9.30 I guess we have had over 35mm rain, absolutely bucketing down and to my horror when I looked out no lights were on.
Aviaries pitch black and rain pouring down,so out I had to go and manually turn the the lights on, they are now on and I was half drowned.I now wait to see what losses in the eggs and young department will be discovered tomorrow morning sadly some of my rarer species were feeding half feathered young.
Moments like this you wished you had small roofed aviaries, but when its over you appreciate the plants as well as the birds I guess.