The strangest thing happened this morning that has never happened in the 9 years that we have lived in this house. A small bird crashed into the glass storm door with an audible thud. Bandit thought someone was knocking on the door. I have a plaque hanging on my front door that my mother painted of 2 chickadees and a bird house. Not sure if this little guy thought it was an actual birdhouse or what. When I looked, the little bird was on his back on my stoop, visibly stunned and panting. I turned him over and Craig came out to check him out. No idea what kind of bird this is but he's pretty small (maybe some kind of swallow?).
He picked him up and checked for broken legs or wings. He seemed physically ok but obviously knocked for a loop. He seemed to recover a bit - less panting and he was holding on to Craig's finger with his feet.
Craig very carefully placed him in a safe place in my garden and hoped that he would survive. When we checked back about an hour later, the bird was gone.
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11 comments:
Nice post..
Beautiful....he just needed a friend to get him through the knocks of his life....just like we do! Luanne
Your bird is probably a male black throated blue warbler. Beautiful.
Poor little thing you must have very clean glass he thought he might fly straight through.
What a sweet little thing. Good for he did not break anything. Glad you captured that little story for us.
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Such a beautiful blue bird. Hope it made its recovery. There is such contradiction when we get this close to nature.
oh...poor little thing. glad to hear he/she recovered and flew off...lovely shots of the birdie ^..^
Poor little bird!! Hopefully he healed and is flying around today.
What a pretty little bird! They fly into my windows all the time. The doves always seem to leave a dust print on the glass in their image!
I've a bird bath hanging on the deck with some pottery birds attached to it. I hawk dived at it one day and chipped one of the birds. I hope he chipped his beak too:)
That is incredible that he held the bird like that!
Last summer we had a humming bird caught in our garage and my daughter held it in her hand for a few minutes. It was tired and scared. she opened her hand to show me and it flew away! Very unexpected!
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