Birds & windows don't mix
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Imagemaster
Registered: Feb 23, 2004
Total Posts: 24935
Country: Canada

This little fellow flew into our kitchen window, despite us having stickers on the window to help prevent this from occurring. He was unconcious on the sidewalk. I picked him up and placed him on a screen above the ground on his side. After about 5 minutes he raised himself to a sitting position, which is when I took this photo. After about 10 more minutes he flew into a nearby tree.
Hopefully he will have recovered completely. Often they end up breaking their necks.



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Mkamp
Registered: Oct 05, 2004
Total Posts: 358
Country: Canada

Poor little guy, I hope he is okay, I am getting much to attached my Chickadee's and I went and spoiled them, I held out some black seed for them the other day and the Chickadee looks at my hand flies over and lands on the container of seed I am holding looks inside looks at me and doesn't take any, he wants the walnuts or the peanut butter cake I make them instead.

Martin



RobAmy
Registered: Aug 15, 2004
Total Posts: 8173
Country: United States

Tony nice shot, hope the little guy recovers fully.



macfiend
Registered: May 17, 2003
Total Posts: 280
Country: United States

Hope the little guy is alright. Nice shot.



lbuscher
Registered: Sep 19, 2004
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Tony, That's one way to get a close up, and a good one at that.
Lou



phili1
Registered: Dec 13, 2003
Total Posts: 2790
Country: United States

Super shot Tony, hope he will be ok.



Laura Hughes
Registered: Jan 24, 2005
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It's a great shot and he doesn't look too shell-shocked or anything



bdz1
Registered: Nov 27, 2004
Total Posts: 785
Country: United States

Happened to me recently - I use half-shut vertical blinds to warn them. Works great but one time a finch crashed into the glass and was unconscious. I went out to remove what I thought was a body, but she perked up a little and actually stepped onto my fingers like a parrot would do. I gave her some head scratches and she closed her eyes a little. Her head kept nodding like she was going in and out. Finally she woke up completely, realized that she was sitting on some dude's hand, and flew off. Happy ending I think.... I hope...



Imagemaster
Registered: Feb 23, 2004
Total Posts: 24935
Country: Canada

Thanks for all the kind comments.

Chestnut-backed Chickadees are the most cheeky of the songbirds around here and I am surprised that more are not killed by cats.

I was taking photos of hummingbirds with my telephoto once, and a chickadee actually landed on the end of my lens. Too bad someone else didn't get a photo of it.

Tony



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