i can haz concushun?
This little guy found out the hard way that glass is more dense than air. When Robin got home yesterday, he zoomed past her and smacked head-first into the window by the door, stunning himself for a good fifteen minutes.
Robin put him onto the ledge by the door, and when she came back to check on him ten minutes later, she said, “I think he’s dead.” He was sitting there with his eyes all glassy, not moving so much as a feather.
And then, as if he had heard her, he spread his wings and took off for an uncoordinated, low-level flight around the front of the house. It sort of reminded me of the old guy in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, who protests his pickup by the corpse cart.
“I’m not dead! I feel fine! I want to go for a walk! I feel happy!”
May 8, 2008 at 7:59 am
Mornin’ Marko-
I had a similar experience last year.
The red squirrels around here had taken to eating my house & garage, so I began a campaign to eliminate them via swift lead poisoning.
One morning I whacked one with a .45 (all I had with me at the time) at about 15’. After the dust had cleared, I noticed a small junco looking all dead about 5’ away. I thought I had inadvertently killed the little guy. Just sitting there, half on its side. I gave him a few minutes, & he stood up, gave me the finger, & took off, somewhat unsteadily.
Guess it was the muzzle concussion that had stunned him.
I regularly whack the pests around here, but I don’t like getting the other little critters caught in friendly fire.
May 8, 2008 at 10:06 am
A 45 for a squirrel? Damn, that’s like using a M72 LAW on an old Volkswagen Beetle. Was there anything left of the treerat?
May 10, 2008 at 2:10 am
You’re not fooling anyone, you know.