Thread: OT: Homeless bird.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:57:41 -0600, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:

>OT: Homeless bird.
>
>About three o'clock this morning an overhead tree branch crashed onto my
>roof. About a minute after that there was bird flying into my windows.
>The limb must've taken it's nest and the bird with it. It was fluttering
>like crazy, clawed to the window screen. It was very disoriented. I
>couldn't tell if it was hurt but when I shined a flashlight on it and
>instead of flying off it fell to the ground.
>
>It spent the next half hour clawing other screened windows fluttering
>like mad, as if to say "what am I going to do now?"
>
>Rebuild.
>
>I know most birds bed down for the night and in the pitch blackness I
>wondered if it could even see.
>
>To add insult to injury. to inspect, I rushed into the living room and
>the security alarm blared to life! Ouch!
>
>I didn't ID the bird. And ouch to you, too, my fine feathered friend!

Placing bird houses way up high on trees would go a long way to solve
that problem, I have more than a dozen... and untold numbers reside in
my barn.

On Nov 22, 9:57*am, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
> OT: Homeless bird.
>
> About three o'clock this morning an overhead tree branch crashed onto my
> roof. About a minute after that there was bird flying into my windows.
> The limb must've taken it's nest and the bird with it. It was fluttering
> like crazy, clawed to the window screen. It was very disoriented. I
> couldn't tell if it was hurt but when I shined a flashlight on it and
> instead of flying off it fell to the ground.
>
> It spent the next half hour clawing other screened windows fluttering
> like mad, as if to say "what am I going to do now?"
>
> Rebuild.
>
> I know most birds bed down for the night and in the pitch blackness I
> wondered if it could even see.
>
> To add insult to injury. to inspect, I rushed into the living room and
> the security alarm blared to life! Ouch!
>
> I didn't ID the bird. And ouch to you, too, my fine feathered friend!
>
> OB Food: Deli roast beef w/horseradish sauce and roast turkey
> w/guacamole English muffin sandwiches and the last glugs of ice-cold
> milk.
>
> Andy

What?

A Moose In Love <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 22, 9:57*am, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> OT: Homeless bird.
>>
>> About three o'clock this morning an overhead tree branch crashed onto
my
>> roof. About a minute after that there was bird flying into my
windows.
>> The limb must've taken it's nest and the bird with it. It was
fluttering
>> like crazy, clawed to the window screen. It was very disoriented. I
>> couldn't tell if it was hurt but when I shined a flashlight on it and
>> instead of flying off it fell to the ground.
>>
>> It spent the next half hour clawing other screened windows fluttering
>> like mad, as if to say "what am I going to do now?"
>>
>> Rebuild.
>>
>> I know most birds bed down for the night and in the pitch blackness I
>> wondered if it could even see.
>>
>> To add insult to injury. to inspect, I rushed into the living room
and
>> the security alarm blared to life! Ouch!
>>
>> I didn't ID the bird. And ouch to you, too, my fine feathered
friend!
>>
>> OB Food: Deli roast beef w/horseradish sauce and roast turkey
>> w/guacamole English muffin sandwiches and the last glugs of ice-cold
>> milk.
>>
>> Andy
>
> What?


TRUE.

Andy