One day last week we heard a loud thump and saw a bird on the steps to the deck. It had flown into the sliding glass door and broken its neck. This was a first for us here.
I noted it's demise in the front of my Peterson Field Guide to Birds:
2022 - A Hairy Woodpecker.
The entry was preceded by these birds who met their deaths flying into windows at The Lodge (the house we built and lived in from 2005-2016 in Baltimore County, Maryland)
2005 - Cedar Waxwing
2006 - Falcon, Cardinal, Blue Grosbeak, and an unknown gray bird
2007, 2008, 2009 - a Thrush each year. (Funny thing is I never saw these birds alive but would hear their beautiful call in the evening)
2010 - White Throated Sparrow.
[There was a hummingbird that died but not from hitting the window. It was hanging from a plant support. I did rescue lots of hummingbirds from the screen porch. They would fly into the screen and get their beaks stuck.]
I hope there won't be more bird deaths by window in our future.
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Shutterfly sent me a photos from 6 years ago on this date - we were madly in the midst of downsizing and all the family was visiting to decide what they wanted of the stuff we were parting with. The Lodge had sold the first weekend in April and we'd signed the papers to move to the continuing care retirement community (Vantage House) in Columbia, MD. Boy has our life changed since then!
Two photos from 2016
