Tweety?

Mostly Dead?

Helpful. Thanks.

I tink he dedd

Yellow rumped warbler

Pine Siskin

I was thinking a warbler,
he dun croaked ?

If you pull its head off you'll be able to see the make and model number.

What's it taste like?

Chicken

Yepper, yellow-rumped warbler, common as dirt up north, hordes of 'em spend the winter around here.

Foraging niche-wise, they are habitat generalists within the confines of the Boreal forest. They also have the ability to digest the wax on many berries, which accounts for why they can winter in the Southern US.

When we was kids they used to be called "Myrtle Warblers" on account of they hung around myrtle bushes eating myrtle berries in the fall in New England, but they have since decided the yellow throated Rocky Mountain form, formerly known as the "Audubon's Warbler", is in fact the same species, so they lumped 'em both into the "Yellow-rumped Warbler", which I guess is an OK name.

Pulling the head off is about the fastest and easiest way to kill sparrows and starlings in the hand, long as you don't mind blood.

Yellow-rumped warbler.

Looks like Im out


Flush twice

Yellow-rumped Warbler

A female

Edited to add: Ah dang it, roundoak beat me to it. Well done, sir.

kebler tresket.

In George's eyes no doubt!

Did it fly into a window?

Where would the world be without teachers?

Cute little bugger

On a campus with more starlings and sparrows than there could have been?

The easiest non-bloody way is to hold the starling or sparrow in one hand, belly down against your fingers. Then, firm pressure with the thumb on the top of its head against your forefinger underneath its jaw will cave in the top of the skull like an eggshell. An advantage of this method too is it leaves the other had free to hold a trap entrance closed or whatever.

Exactly. Laying on the ground right below.

Thanks for the ID folks.

Why'dja killit

Not sure what type, but it's worth two in the bush.

Shazaam!

All the sensitivity generated over this tragic event....l just want to say, well it was hard to get through all the reading fighting all the tears......moving stuff from everyone.

What an honor..

No barriers, no facades ...... Just a bunch of real men being real.

Mileamore bird!

3,000 miles of an epic journey, night after night through rain, wind, lightning, over mountains, past cities, over vast expanses of water.......

Driven by an ancient biological imperative to return to the land where she first drew breath, whatever the perils whatever the risks........


.....and then you guys left the lights on.......

Crow

Negative, ghostrider. Broad daylight. Hardly use lights at all this time o’year.

Stupid kind?

Right then, you just hadda build your house right there, didn't ya?

Our north side of the house is pretty much all glass.
We average about 4-5 a week.
Apparently we accidentally built a Tweety bird auschwitz.

Ironbender,

You playing badminton with that thing yet?

Also affectionately called a "Butter Butt" by many of the birders I know.

Prob'ly flying low to avoid the wind turbines.

have you tried the stick-on hawk outline decals?

https://msu.edu/~chenange/KBS/images/hawk.gif

In this case you blow the image up 8 1/2" by 11" size

Said to be pretty effective sometimes.

Then what would my dog eat?

Navigation error.

They’ll do that when they think they’re in danger. Earlier this year on my way to school there was a warbler in bush behind a fast food place one morning, clearly where it had ended up after a night of migrating. I was on a bicycle, it flew across the parking lot and “plink” right into a darkened window of a restaurant, probably seeking cover.

Fell to the ground, stunned. I was on a bicycle, so I put it in a shirt pocket and brung it to school to show the kids. Two hours later it had come around but still hiding in my pocket, it was a common yellowthroat so I let it go in some weeds.

Here’s a collision, looks like the prob’ly Sharp-shinned Hawk survived, but the mourning dove is prob’ly a goner.

Years ago, the kids came and got me all excitedly about a bird trapped in the screened room. Being the kind, wildlife friendly guy, I opened the two doors and tried to "herd" the bird (common sparrow) out. The bird did not cooperate and with patience running thin (I had something else to do in the A/C of the house) I grabbed my fish landing net.

Only took one try and I had the bird secure in the net! The only problem was it was flying North and I was swinging the net to the South. While the bird stopped, its head kept along the northward path a few feet past the net.

Inadvertently, I had decapitated the sparrow. Although a few more birds managed to find their way into the screened room, I never resorted to the landing net to get them out!!

Then there was the possum story................

I have a bay window on the North side of the house. Birds and horseflies think it’s a landing strip!

We still call them Myrtles up here. Old habits die hard I guess.

Windows act as mirrors- but you all know that. Probably- I have some doubts here and there....

A spruce grouse will shake the whole house. Ask me how I know this. So far they haven't broken a window, and I'm somewhat surprised. I wonder if my homeowners insurance covers it.

Various tweety birds and robins go from tink to thump.

Had an ermine get into a room in a school once. Captured and released unharmed, tho the essence lingered for some time.

Here when we bought. Strike two! 🤣

No. I'm honoring it's sacrifice.

OK but how do you catch them?

Ahhh... a toast to the immigrant's life. Must mean beer, too early for whiskey!

Nest box with trap entrance.

The hell you say!