Bird Watching: He crashed into the window but lived to tell the story, 1 by avaeads

avaeads wrote:
I keep a bird 'recovery' box in my house for the ones that crash into the windows. I feed hundreds of birds during the long winter months here, and unfortunately there are many window strikes. Most are caused by various hawks, Northern Shrikes, Steller Jays and Magpies scaring them into the windows. The preditory type birds seem to think my porch is a banquet table. It is so cold here that if I don't bring them indoors, they become hypothermic before they can recover. (I even save the hawks and shrikes that hit the windows, btw.)

Here is a Pine Grosbeak enjoying the warmth of my hand just before I released him....