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This is just crazy (If you know anything about birds please click on this thread.) Today I went to my Grandmas house who died about 6 weeks ago and when I went downstairs (she lived in a mother-in-law apartment at my aunts house) I could swear I heard someone knocking on the window. When I got to the window I realized that there was a Cardinal running into the glass over-and-over again. This Cardinal must have flown into the window 150 times (at least) while I was sitting there over the course of a couple of hours. It would fly into the glass back up a few feet and try again. I mean this bird was just nuts. I called my mother and she said that the bird was doing the same thing the last time she was there a couple of weeks ago. It seems that this bird REALLY wants to get inside.
My grandma actually loved this bird as we would always see it out the window as we played cards and she was always commenting on how pretty it was etc. etc. So does anyone actually think that this Cardinal misses my Grandma or is there another reason that a bird would smash into the glass over and over and over again for weeks at at time? My aunt has been filling the birdfeeders so it's not like it's hungry. It's very strange and I wish I could find a way to make this bird stop banging into the glass before it gets brain damage. | |
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Drunk birds crash into building's glass Associated Press — Feb. 14, 2005 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dozens of birds, drunk from eating holly berries, crashed into the glass of an office building and died last week. "It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," worker Denise Wilkinson said. "It was spooky. You could hear them where they flew into the glass." Warm weather and an ample supply of berries attracted hundreds of cedar waxwings into the enclosed courtyard of the three-story building Tuesday, The birds began getting drunk on the berries. They got so loopy that some were falling off branches and others were slamming into the glass walls that enclose the courtyard, said Burgess Mills, the building's owner. About half of the 100 birds that slammed into the building died, workers said. Groundskeepers have tried to help the birds by putting tape on windows or nets over the holly trees to keep them from eating the berries, Mills said. | |
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ReturnOfDOOK said: http://espn.go.com/outdoo...91483.html
Drunk birds crash into building's glass Associated Press — Feb. 14, 2005 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dozens of birds, drunk from eating holly berries, crashed into the glass of an office building and died last week. "It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," worker Denise Wilkinson said. "It was spooky. You could hear them where they flew into the glass." Warm weather and an ample supply of berries attracted hundreds of cedar waxwings into the enclosed courtyard of the three-story building Tuesday, The birds began getting drunk on the berries. They got so loopy that some were falling off branches and others were slamming into the glass walls that enclose the courtyard, said Burgess Mills, the building's owner. About half of the 100 birds that slammed into the building died, workers said. Groundskeepers have tried to help the birds by putting tape on windows or nets over the holly trees to keep them from eating the berries, Mills said. The bird sure was acting like it's drunk but being as it's winter here in Minnesota I don't think they are finding any berries. | |
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