Hi.
Do any of you have recommendations for constructing a screen around a (as yet unbuilt) greenhouse to make it visible to birds? Sometime I'd very much like to have a greenhouse, but don't want to do so until I can come up with a way to make the entire structure visible. It's to be a 12x16 glass greenhouse, and I've been pondering a heavy-gauge wire mesh, offset from the glass a bit, to make a grid pattern visible to birds without casting too much of a shadow on the greenhouse. I've been perusing the search history but haven't run across any previous searches. Does anyone have feedback? Or pictures? It'd be super appreciated.

Cheers

I have had a glass greenhouse, and now have a polycarbonate one. I haven't had any trouble with birds with either one. They notice it. They used to fly in the vents until we covered them with hardware cloth.

Screening, depending on what you use, will cut down on the beauty of a glass greenhouse and probably cut down on light transmission also. Two ideas...
1. Suncatchers will decorate plus act as "barriers" in the invisible panes.
2. Ever see those decals people put on company car or bus windows that look opaque from the outside, but can be seen through from the inside? Perhaps you could find something similar in an acceptable design and place small pieces on the panes.

It might be cool to stencil big designs on the screening with spray paint. You could have an artsy greenhouse

I have a glass greenhouse since 2001 and in all these years I have never seen a bird fly into it. I have on a few occasions seen a bird landing on top and actually looking inside. ( the roof is glass too. )

I get birds flying into the greenhouse and flying around inside pretty often. I have never known one to 'fly into' it like bang their body on it. I have a long puff ball thing on an extension rod I try to get them out with. If that doesn't work and its the warm season I leave the doors open all night till they find their way out.

One day my daughter and I were getting ready to leave our house and we opened the front door and a peregrine falcon flew in. It was wild. Took almost an hour to get it back out.