Rhianna says:
The mega-important thing to remember when removing the deitritus of nature from your window sill is that you need to have a fan...behind you...blowing towards the outside. Or else random wind will blow the dust of 8 years of bird shit into your bedroom where you set up your brand new sheets.
A useful tool to do this shovelling is to have an old fireplace trowel that you found in your new apartment, which only has a fake fireplace which never held a fire. The old owner probably got it to shovel bird poop/eggs/dried pears out with and then never got around to it.
Kaylen....can we get a picture of that fake fireplace? My god it's beautiful.