You can imagine my apprehension when my husband walked through the door last night and asked me how my new friend was doing (I had advised him earlier he had to be particularly nice to me given my robin window strike episode).  I had some errands to run after dinner but in the back of my head I wondered, “Would Ryan swiftly deal with my friend’s suffering?”  I took one last peak at “Robbie” and slipped out the backdoor.

It was dark when I made it back home.  Ryan had been glued to his laptop all evening and remembered my angst only when I swept passed him on my way to the blinds.  Robbie was still there but he was now sitting on a nearby rock.  There was still hope.  As I was getting ready for bed, Ryan ran into the room exclaiming, “Come look, he can fly”.  Oh, our little baby found his wings!  Ryan and I were ecstatic.

Back in the kitchen this morning I heeded all precautions.  Since Robbie’s friends contributed to two earlier morning thuds (although much softer dive bombs than Robbie’s), it was time to bring on the gift-wrap.  I cannot imagine what our neighbors think, “what are they doing decorating their house with Christmas paper in July?”  Alternatively (thanks to Jered Seward), check out http://www.sialis.org/windowstrikes.htm for more preventative measures and what to do in the event of a stunned bird.   According to this site, window strikes kill between 100 million and 1 billion birds in North America each year!

No more injuries by my windows!  Oh happy day in my Toggle office.

Tags: bird, home, office, strikes, window

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