Amazing picture

[Les W]

This is just amazing, I hope the bird was OK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-14111152

 

[Peter Burgess]

We had a similar impression of a pigeon (I think) on our front room window until I washed it off.

 

[mikem]

It's more often pigeons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tofsrud/3229250385/#

Mike

 

[Peter Burgess]

I saw another one on the office window this morning. Another pigeon I think.

 

[Rich West]

This is not uncommon. On several occasions I have collected sparrowhawks for a wildlife rescue centre which have crashed into windows or patio doors. People, quite understandably,  tend to locate their bird feeders where they can watch them and unwittingly provide a very tempting takeaway. A black silhouette of a large bird placed inside the window will usually deter the kamikaze.
If you stand in the garden (at various times of the day) and look at the window or patio door - you can see if there are reflections of trees & bushes - if there are then this is just what the bird sees and tries to fly through.

 

[SamT]

Its not just birds either..

World's Craziest Fools Episode 2 Part 1

[skip to 1 minute in]

 

[Burt]

"There's only two people in the world crazy enough to do that - and I'm both of them!"

-Mr T

 

[Roger W]

It's easy done with these plate glass doors.  We had 'em in the offices of the chocolate company I worked for in China, and one day one of the salesmen walked straight through one of 'em.  There was an almighty crash, and there he was looking a bit dazed standing in a heap of glass fragments.  Must have had a head like a brick!

That's why I've got these vinyl butterfly thingies stuck on my patio doors!