Navigational failure

[strange_complex]

I feel very, very sorry indeed for the bird who left the following all-too-eloquent imprint on one of my upstairs windows:



I did not actually find its poor, crumpled body on the ground below - but given how many foxes live in my area, that's no guarantee it wasn't there, for a short while at least. :-(

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[xipuloxx.livejournal.com]

Birds do often recover from hitting windows, so I wouldn't necessarily assume it was gobbled up. Once when my parents and I were in our living room, there was an almighty BANG on the window that made us all jump. We couldn't see anything from inside, so we went outside, and found a stunned but still-alive bird (a starling, I think) under the window. After a while it managed to fly off again, apparently none the worse for its experience.

Mind you, if our cat had been about it might have been a different story...