Joe Zychik wrote:

> What might appear as a bird getting drunk and flying
> into a window is more likely the innate problem of the
> bird not being able to disgtinguish between a
> reflection and an actual landscape while in flight.

Except that the birds only seemed to make these poor judgments at that time
of year when the birds were eating the overripened berries. As a young kid
my brother and I used to sit on the porch and laugh at them as they ate the
berries. At one point my parents considered having all the pyracantha bushes
torn out and replaced with something less perilous to our windows.

-gts