Date: 5/4/24 1:15 pm From: Mag Tait <magtait1...> Subject: Re: [birders] All's well that ends well (I hope)
Beautiful bird! Hopefully that netting cushion its bump. Just had my first female oriole and my first male hammer.
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> On May 4, 2024, at 3:02 PM, <ajf-jlf...> wrote:
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> Birders,
>
> That all human activities may bring harm to our fellow travelers on planet
> Earth is a truism. Of course, we can't foresee just what the outcomes may
> be. When we built our present home with a wonderful view of the Saline
> River bottom land, we did not anticipate that our treasured view into that
> ecosystem would bring death to a dozen birds of eight different species from
> window strikes before I was able to install bird netting to prevent
> collisions as panicked feeding birds were flushed by hunting Cooper's Hawks
> into what was perceived as patches of open sky above the feeders. By far,
> the netting has prevented most such deaths. However, in now rare instances,
> we still hear a dull thud as a bird connects with a top corner of the
> trapezoidal windows that let us see the treetops, but remain essentially
> unprotected by the netting.
>
> Today brought one of those dreaded sounds, and I looked up to see a small
> ball of fluff dropping toward the patio below. Running to the window
> expecting to see a lifeless form lying on the concrete, instead I found the
> tiny body of our FOY Black and White Warbler entangled in the netting at
> knee level. The three attached pics taken at 1-minute intervals and a very
> brief video (with too much bandwidth to share) show the apparent recovery of
> the little bird which, like far too many concussed athletes, was soon able
> to continue on its way.
>
> I hope that small migrant will be able to reach its nesting location, find a
> mate, and is successfully reproduce its magnificent kind. And I'm left to
> reassess the full ecological costs of having imposed my own dream home on
> the space that previously was shared by so many of my living counterparts
> that we so much enjoy! I share these thoughts to share the knowledge of
> what is happening daily as a result of 8,000,000,000 of us having blissfully
> displaced a significant segment of Earth's Biosphere.
>
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