Wham!

[jethrien]

A pigeon just flew into my window. Slam!

Startled the living daylights out of me. Didn't seem to phase the bird much. He ended up perched on the inch and a half ledge (how did he do that?), staring at us all, somewhat confused. Actually a pretty one, for a New York pigeon. Solid white wings, with a dove grey body and an iridescent neck. Not very bright though.

My officemates had a paper bird they taped to the window in the last office after a sparrow left a body print. Maybe we should dig it out again...

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

"It's not really bird strike, though, is it. It's engine suck."

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

This happened at my house in Westchester. I called home on my cell to tell my sister and her friend that I was coming to pick them up, and she was frantic and screeching that a bird had flown into the window. This one wasn't so hardy as your pigeon, though; when I got there, it was on its side, gasping in that way I know means its diaphragm had been ruptured (I've seen it on the rats I used to perfuse). Poor thing. The girls wouldn't let me snap its neck for mercy because they thought it might get better. I didn't want to lie to them, but they would have been more freaked out if I killed it for good than if it died on its own.

Stupid birds, what can I say?

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

Maybe we ought to make bird-repellent glass, so that they stop doing that. We could make the glass put out high-pitched noises that would repel birds, dogs, cats, kids with overly sensitive hearing ...