Mid-Atlantic Gardening: ...tuppence a bag, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Life and Death Drama,
Sometimes we get a bird that flies into our glass doors. Usually they are just stunned and will recover and fly away in a few minutes. Saturday when our GS JR was here there was a flurry of birds and a thud. We looked out and there was this poor Sparrow laying on it's side. He looked pretty stunned and I was thinking I'm not sure this one will get up and fly away. I also noticed that sitting in the butterfly bush right next to the feeders was a some kind of falcon or small hawk. I didn't get a real good look at it. It had it's back turned to me and hopped down behind the holly hedge. Although not real big it was bigger than any of the regular visitors to the feeders, but also smaller than most of the hawks that we see.
JR kept a close watch on the sparrow that we let lay and I warned him that it might be hurt too much to get up. But he soon informed me that the sparrow was no longer laying on his side up sitting up. About that time JR's parents showed up. By this time the sparrow had been laying out there for quite a long time and it was fridge out there. They decided to bring the bird inside where it was warmer thinking it might recover better out of the cold. So we put him in a small clear plastic box with a screen top.