Angel

I fear this story was a tragic one... We attract birds by the dozens, and sometimes, for seemingly no reason, they startle and in one "swoosh" they fly off. Bless this little one that she took a wrong turn and the sound was awful! I fully expected to find her on the mat, but I didn't see her anywhere in the yard. I can only hope it wasn't as bad as it sounded.

To me, this was such an ethereal image that, if she didn't live to see another day, she left a singularly beautiful impression, and for her sacrifice, she'll not be forgotten...

[Marnie]

Oh dear, we have the same problem here, nothing we can do about it either.

[Delia]

That's a sad story.

[Pam Knowler]

Yes we get the birds fly into our lounge windows. There is often an angel impression left behind and no bird so I breath a sigh of relief. It is normally the big fat pigeons who do it. Normally too interested in chasing the females round to notice where they are flying!

[Issi Bannerman]

Oh, dear! But he/she has definitely left his/her mark!

[Joan Robillard]

Such is life-very fleeting sometimes

[Cherrill]

We have this too and I fearfully look out and down to see if there is a quivering body. More often than not there is nothing, probably a bird in a tree somewhere with a big headache! The dust and oil in their feathers leaves this amazing image. I know when the pigeons have been in the bird bath as they leave a powdery residue of the water surface. Seeing it as an angel is such a lovely idea. Some people put small silhouette hawk stickers on their windows to deter the birds.

[Louise & Ken]

@Cherrill Thank you for sharing the thoughts... My little grandsons love the gel stickers to decorate the expanse of door glass, but in the birds' haste to flush, I know they don't all look where they're going! But about those stickers... After Christmas I thought it had been quite long enough to leave up the ones that spelled out "Keep Out" in dripping blood! Time to go shopping for the Valentine hearts!

[Brooke Lindsay]

If you couldn't find the body,she probably did manage to get away on her own- that was always the way inmy house growing up.

[elkehochban]

aw, poor little thing! They see the reflected sky in your window and think they can fly thru it, only to get smacked in the face.

[Ethel]

We have had such happenings many times. There has rarely been a dead bird, and even those that are wounded can be kept quiet in a box until they recover

[Prairie Smoke]

It is a beautiful picture. Poor birdie.

[Pyrrhula]

I once withness a duck flying on our kitchen window. She seems dead . I took my shoppings into the house and get back,. No dead duck to find. Wasn`t that dead as I expected I guest.

[Danette Thompson]

Such a sweet tribute. I hope she made it.

[Ron]

Probably better for you that the window wasn't open!

[Louise & Ken]

@stray_shooter ....never had a pet dove...

[Ron]

@Weezilou On the bird intelligence scale doves are not exactly in the upper percentile.

[Chris K]

oh dear , so sad. I hate it when a little bird flies into our front window. It is such a sickening sound. sometimes though they seem to be able to fly off again