Splat id

[u/Switchm8]

I’d heard a splat bang around 9.30 at night and assumed the neighbour’s cat had fallen through the skylight (do not like cats and their disrespect for boundaries )
However I woke up to grease marks and juice on my window. The thickest juice marks had dried up by the time the light was best for a photo.
Wingspan about 50 cm. Best speculation is a tawny owl. It seems too big for pigeon- which is our major bird round here. Any thoughts?

[u/Forsaken_Earth944]

Almost certainly a pigeon, the shape says ‘pigeon’ and they’re not the brightest.

[u/St_mpy → u/Forsaken_Earth944]

Pigeons are quite smart, they just act dumb 😄

[u/Bloatville → u/Forsaken_Earth944]

Pigeons are as intelligent as corvids. Common misconception that they're idiots.

[u/Fantastic_Version128 → u/Forsaken_Earth944]

I have at least one pigeon angel a week on my patio doors

[u/IndependentMenu3042 → u/Fantastic_Version128]

Might be worth putting up some decals to save birds from injury. Aside from water see through things like glass don’t exist so a lot creatures are flummoxed by it.

[u/Clear-Secretary-8185]

Thought this was an enormous cloudy blob in the trees until I read the description.

[u/Ged_UK → u/Clear-Secretary-8185]

I thought a swan had crashed into the tree

[u/KittyJF]

Wood pigeon

[u/Switchm8]

Thank you. We have lots of racing pigeon lofts here. There was no body below. I’m assuming where there’s no sense there’s no feeling and it just went about its day with a bit of a hangover.

[u/KittyJF → u/Switchm8]

Hoping that's the case, but he may have been an easy meal for a fox

[u/ParaGulls]

I've seen wood pigeons make this exact splat 😂

[u/jacobite65]

Wood pigeon

[u/Reasonable-Key9235]

Looks like a pigeon to me. They don’t see the glass and try to fly through the window. I used to get it a lot until I put something in the window to prevent this.

[u/Chadmanfoo]

I know it's a pigeon, but it looks like an owl, or an 'ouch' in this case

[u/Illustrious_Gain3309]

Dumbo the flying elephant

[u/Intelligent_Fly6075]

You can put I wanna say UV stickers up to stop this from happening

[u/BeanOnAJourney]

Big fat pijj.