It seems that you are never too young to start a career of colliding with windows. Following a resounding thunk, this juvenile robin sat motionless on a porch roof below the offending window. After about ten minutes, it flew off.
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I just read a very interesting article about birds and the number lost to glass strikes every year. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology publishes a magazine quarterly called Living Bird. The article is in the latest edition, Winter 2014, and is titled Glass Action for Birds.
PS. Thanks Alistair, love your blog!
Jane, on the strength of your comment, I looked up the article and read it. Alas, it seems there is no really satisfactory solution to the problem yet.
Friends in Naramata are regularly treated to a quail dinner, when one of those tasty specimens slam into their large glass windows.