Last week was a hard week for the birds... around my office building. It is a sad, sorry state of affairs and our office area are the main ones that get to deal with it. We have two trees outside our office windows and countless innocent bird victims smack into the mirrored window mid flight expecting to continue soaring on through the trees. The mirrors aren't prejudiced against any bird... hummingbirds, sparrows, geese, they have all been mystified with their reflection and brought to an early death. Upon impact I have Francesca run out and if she is able to bring them back we keep them in a box until they can fly off again. Many do not come back.
This week we met the Bohemian Wax Tip - a bird we have met before in the past. The trees outside our office have berries on them that come out at the beginning of the winter. Those berries have sat, and sat, and fermented - and the Wax Tips swallow ten or eleven of them whole at one sitting. We discovered by researching the birds that they gorge themselves on these fermented berries and get drunk. We think they are in the middle of their migration when they stop by our office. Not soon after the gorging we had about five dead birds scattered along our sidewalk from flying into the building. This is a photo of one of the innocent birds, brought to death by flying head first into the windows, you can see the remnant of the berries on both ends of his spectrum.
We have plastered post it notes along the first floor windows by our office and they have seemed to help stop the birds from flying into the windows. We have not had any deaths since. I can only hope we are able to continue to help the birds, it is a sad sight to see such beauty lay so still.
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