Just a quick reminder that broad glass surfaces, typically windows and storm doors, can be death traps for song birds. They see the sky and trees reflected in them and fly full speed into them and break their necks. I'd never had this problem, but I'd been leaving the wooden door open to let the cats look out at the yard, and the absence of the wooden door made the storm door a mirror. So a few minutes after I brought in the paper, there was a beautiful russet female Cardinal splayed out with her neck twisted downward but her feathers spread out as if in flight. I dodged around so as not to have my wife see this, and scooped up the remains and tossed them into some deep woods across the street, a sort of last flight. I'm pasting some profiles of birds on the glass and will leave the wooden door open much less often. Stuff happens, but I don't want to be the cause. I do love to see the birds and other critters living and singing and doing their things. Female Cardinals are particularly sweet, so much so their males bring them seeds as offerings.
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