Bird Stop Off Place

This beautiful "God's Creature" flew against our kitchen window. The only second Cardinal (female) to do that since we have been here. The first one died on our front step earlier this fall, no males so far. We have had many other birds hit the window and a few never make it after impact. I have held many of them until they are ready to take off. They seem to like to be held in a warm hand maybe 20 minutes to 30 minutes and fly off when they have regained full strength. The trees reflect against the glass like a mirror and they think it must be ok. I wish there were something we could do with out hurting our view as we love to watch all the birds at our feeders out there. We do have a X pattern panels in the inside and that does not help. We even taped large pictures of big black birds in each window that helped for a while. We got that idea from a bird magazine.

This bird hit the glass at just about dark and was conscious but not ready to fly so we put her in a box and put it in our Patio. She had blood in her right eye that did not look good. We put her in God's care for the night. In the morning, I got the box out of the patio and the Cardinal was moving around very vigorously. I took it to the front door and opened it. It flew away so fast I could hardly see it. Thank God!