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bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: space-time
Date: October 21, 2012 07:29PM
around 5 PM I was in the kitchen and I hear a loud bang in the window, like a ball hit the window, I look outside I see no kids. I peak on the window and I see something moving... I go outside and I find a bird, looks like a Feral Pigeon barely moving. I figured it hit the window by accident and it will recover and fly away. I had this happen with those Blue Jays before. But 3 hours later it's still there and seems dead. I'm about to pick it up and toss it in the dumpster.

I noticed another larger bird in the area at the time. He seemed to be looking at my window. Not sure if that was a prey bird or not, but maybe it injured this guy who was supposed to be his dinner.
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: bwicklander
Date: October 21, 2012 08:05PM
While I was driving, I had a bird that was flying over me drop dead and fell right in front of my car. It was weird. One minute I saw flapping, the next bouncing off the pavement.
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: Frank
Date: October 21, 2012 08:09PM
It probably broke its neck when it hit the window. I've had this happen twice in the past week.
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: October 21, 2012 08:10PM
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: Ted King
Date: October 21, 2012 09:15PM
Some years ago a bird flew into a large window we had in the front room. I heard the "thump" and went to the window to see what had happened. I looked out and didn't see anything, so I decided to go out the front door and check outside the house. When I opened the door, our kitty was standing right there with a bird in its mouth - obviously the bird had hit the window and gotten knocked out because our kitty couldn't catch anything that was capable of movement. I didn't want our kitty to come into the house with the bird so I tried to quickly close the door before she could come in. Unfortunately, I wasn't quick enough and I closed the door right on poor kitty's head - not too hard, but hard enough that the bird (a sparrow) popped out of her mouth. Evidently it had recovered while in kitty's mouth because as soon as it popped out, it took off trying to fly away. After about 5 minutes, I was finally able to catch it in a butterfly net I had. I let it go outside and it flew off. Kitty was pretty upset at me for quite awhile.
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: space-time
Date: October 21, 2012 09:21PM
LOL Ted King, what a funny story smiling smiley

this one is confirmed dead now.
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: October 21, 2012 10:32PM
....would you rather that it DROP something else......on you.....???



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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: Racer X
Date: October 21, 2012 10:33PM


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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: davester
Date: October 21, 2012 11:15PM
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After about 5 minutes, I was finally able to catch it in a butterfly net I had.

You never know when you might need that butterfly net. Always keep one at the ready!



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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: Carm
Date: October 22, 2012 12:50AM
Had a dove crash into my garage door. Very loud. Looked around and saw a hawk on my roof, figured it wasnt the hawk that hit the garage door. So I looked around on the floor and found the dead dove in the flower bed. The hawk looking down at the dove. Me thinks the dove was hit mid-air by the hawk and crashed into my garage, killing the dove on impact.

I don't think the bird that dropped dead on your house really died in flight, especially if you saw a larger bird flying around.
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: October 22, 2012 01:28AM
I don't think the bird that dropped dead on your house really died in flight, especially if you saw a larger bird flying around.

Yeah, my first thought was (and is) Window 1, Bird 0, and not dying in flight.

I knew somebody who was having problems with birds flying into her glass patio door. I recommended that she cut the eagle out of USPS Express Mail envelopes and tape them to the window. There were no fatalities before the eagle landed, and no crashes after the eagle.






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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: billb
Date: October 22, 2012 07:40AM
When we installed much larger casement windows in the back porch little yellow finches kept flying into them. They'd mostly be knocked out cold on the ground under the window but would recover in a bit and fly away. Sometimes they'd be just dazed and confused and recover.
We put suncatchers ( they were popular at the time and there were some around ) in the windows and they sufficed until the windows got dirty less new.

I don't know if a hawk will snag a dead bird off the ground - they usually seem to want live prey.
He was probably watching you. Hoping you didn't grab his lunch. :-)



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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: Speedy
Date: October 22, 2012 08:47AM
We solved the problem by never washing our windows.



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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: Robert M
Date: October 22, 2012 09:02AM
Space,

I'm with the others. The bird likely died from the injuries it sustained when hitting the window. MI can't imagine it made for a pleasant experience. My old high school had very large glass windows and they taped pictures of birds in flight turning away on it. Likely, that was due to birds hitting the glass one time too often.

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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: billb
Date: October 22, 2012 10:07AM
Visual cues are taped to windows (plate glass doors) for humans, too. :-)



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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: October 22, 2012 11:06AM
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Re: bird in flight drops dead?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: October 22, 2012 12:46PM
.....well, a BIRD in the hand is worth 2 in the bush......



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