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Downy: Down!

17 years ago

Oh, he hit my office window pretty hard. Enough that I jumped right up to see if he was on the ground. Looked pretty bad, but still breathing and hard to tell if just shook-up or in a death spiral.

Got him off the cold concrete and put him on the edge of my porch rug in the direct sunlight and sat with him. I was able to coax him up into my hand and for about 20 minutes he just held on to my fingers as I worked around the yard. Pretty cool.

I could see him start to get his senses back. He flapped both wings and started looking around at my dog (who wouldn't hurt a fly). He quit breathing hard, so when I sat down with he and the dog, I was guessing he was going to be ok. A couple of sniffs from the dog later and he had flown over to a shrub about 5 feet way - then up to a tree near the suet feeder where he often eats. Hung out there for about 15 minutes before heading back into the woods.

That was nice. :-) Better go refill the log feeder for him.

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