He crashed into the window but lived to tell the story

He hit hard, but recovered after about 30 minutes. What a beauty, eh?

Poor little thing! I just hate it when they crash into the windows. :-( I just had a downy do that awhile back. I held him until he recovered. All of a sudden it was like he came to his wits, took a few looks at me like who are you!, and then took off. lol

I've put stickers on the windows, to try to let them know somethings there, but they still hit them. What is one to do?

Ahhh, poor baby. I'm happy to hear he made a recovery. Sure is a beauty.

Creekwalker, we have lots of windows and have found that nothing works really good. We tried the window stickers too, didn't help one bit. Now we buy the shinny silver streamers that we hang all across the windows in early spring and we have less birds hit the windows, but I don't think anything is foollproof.

The whole back of my house is windows, and a few birds a year usually die. Gives me a good excuse not to wash them, right??

2009 Patio window/s fatalities, 2 Robin's, an Ovenbird, Dark-eyed Junco, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and last week had a female House Finch knock herself out, good to go after 20 minutes, I thought she was a goner. Glad the Blue Bird made it DG5! :)

Burd, you sure get cool birds up in Ohio!!

I hate when that happens! I had a white-eyed vireo hit a window at my home a couple years ago...he eventually recovered and flew away but I got to hold him in my hand first!

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....

Those are cute guys!

Awwww, that's too bad so many die of just windows. :-( That is a beautiful Pine Grosbeak avaeads! Our casualties haven't been bad, no deaths so far that I know of in 2009. I got to hold that Downy, which is much smaller than I imagined. And we had a Cardinal earlier that we held and a Red Bellied Woodpecker too. But last year a "snowbird" a dark eyed Junco lost his life. When they knock themselves so silly that they just sit in your hand for so long, it makes me wonder how they are later on.

That Downy hit so hard that I got to hold him for a good 30 minutes. I thought he had broken his neck when I picked him up, he was so limp. But he seemed to recover and fly away. :-)

Here was the Cardinal we held last Spring.

When I lived in Hawaii, I ended up having to cover 2 of my windows with lace sheers on the outside using double-stick tape. They were the only windows that were the doublehung type instead of the jalousie strips, I had so loved them when we moved in, but within days we were finding dead birds under them.