[Zacs Mom]

That sounds like the time an American Goldfinch flew into one of my windows ... it was stunned, but not seriously injured. I brought the little guy into the house and tended to it until it seemed to have sufficiently recovered. It was alert with no visible injuries so I decided to release him out a second floor window unto a flat roof where I normally feed the birds. (I'd scatter seeds onto the flat roof and the birds would feed there all day)

Well, I opened the window and set the little finch down onto the roof. He just sat there looking back at me. "Come on", I said, "you're okay. You can make it." I offered encouragingly as I reached out and gave him a gentle nudge with my finger.

The little guy took about three hops and then swoosh! ~ out of nowhere, a Sharp-shined Hawk swooped down and nailed the little critter!!!

"Aw geez!" I thought ~ "I'll bet you're sure glad I made sure you were alert to experience that, huh little guy !"



Since I worked with hawks at that time my friends all unjustly accused me of using this poor little finch to chum hawks to my rooftop!



Which, of course I hadn't .... although, as the hawk just sat there with his free lunch staring at me, I'm not so sure he wasn't thinking the same thing!

[AnAmericanMother]

Oops.

At least you tried.

My Lab retrieves the birds that hit the glass and brings them to me. Sometimes we're able to revive them.

[HairOfTheDog]

What a drama! But great pictures. I never know who to root for on nature shows, the gazelle or the lion.... they both need to survive. :~\

[MJemison]

The little guy took about three hops and then swoosh! ~ out of nowhere, a Sharp-shined Hawk swooped down and nailed the little critter!!!

Too bad! This summer a sharp-shin was lurking in the tree just above my bird feeders - darn, I thought, there goes some finches. But suddenly from the barn came a swarm of barn swallows and they harassed the sharp-shin till he left. I have never seen anything like it, and didn't know that barn swallows would do such a thing. This was, however, during their nesting time, so maybe they were a little short-tempered.