Friday, June 7, 2013
If it wasn't for the wildlife, I'd have no life at all...
Earlier this week, I was getting ready to get ready for work when I heard a tap-tapping noise. I listened for a bit, then heard it again. Tap tap tappity tap. It seemed to be coming from our bedroom.
"Now what?" I thought. (I may have also sighed. It's becoming a habit.)
I went to stand in the bedroom, waiting for a repetition. Silence. Then tap tap tap. I was looking around trying to trace the source when a movement at the window caught my eye.
There was a male goldfinch trying to come in the window. Through the glass. The tapping noise was his beak hitting the window pane, as he tried to push his way through whatever strange force field was holding him back. Tap tap tap. Tap tappity tap. He'd drop back and rest for a bit on a branch of the lilac bush just outside the window, then fly up and back at it.
Tap tap. Tap tappity tap. Tap tap tap tap tap.
Persistent little devil.
He kept it up for two hours.
He must have had a hellacious headache by that time. I considered texting Madman, who was already at work, but thought "Oh, no, he'll never believe this one..." I did tell him about it that night when I got home, and he just grinned and shook his head. Me and my exotic friends.
This morning, Mr Goldfinch was back. At 6:15am. This time Madman saw him, too, so it's not just me and my strange encounters.
Silly bird was still at it when we left for work.
I wonder if the weasel told him what a nice place we have...
Funny! When our feeders are empty, I get them impression I am being yelled at by the finches and friends when they look into the house.
ReplyDeleteFor the past 3 years where I work, there's been a male cardinal that keeps attacking his own reflection in a window. It's always the same window during the winter and spring. Even for a bird he's pretty dim.
ReplyDeleteGo figure. Evolution fail.
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