Memento Mori - Sharp-shinned Hawk

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  Stephen Prunier

• Mar 2, 2017

Lovely and sad. At least it will live on through your image.

 

• removed account4

• Mar 2, 2017

what a beautiful sending-off.
thank you for doing this !
john

 

• HiHoSilver

• Mar 2, 2017

'Hummingbirds here. 'Always sad.

 

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  Andrew O'Neill

• Mar 2, 2017

Beautiful.

 

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  sly

• Mar 3, 2017

Hummingbirds, hiho? We've got Anna's and Rufous hummers here - and have never had a window strike. The quail hit the window often, but haven't died. The most frequent fatal strikes are siskins. We've got stickers on our big picture windows to define them for the birds, but their defence is to scatter in every direction when threatened. The death of this hawk was surprising. These things are amazingly agile. I've seen one come under the fence - a 4 inch gap - at full speed into a covey of quail. Not sure what this one was doing flying full speed into the small window of a dark back room.

 

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  David Lyga

• Mar 3, 2017

If you put some stencils on the window the birds will know that it is not passable. Many high-rise buildings are now doing that. It would be a shame not to do that. - David Lyga

 

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  Heinz

• Mar 3, 2017

Beautiful picture with all these detailed structures inside. Much better than my snapshot:
http://www.apug.org/forum/index.php?media/memento-mori-on-the-way-to-work.42848/
however it is nice how we were led to similar titles!

 

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  winger

• Mar 3, 2017

+1 to Stephen's comment.

The windows in this house don't get hit often, but it tends to be barn swallows swooping too fast through the front porch. Our feeders are near the kitchen windows, but they don't get hit (knock on wood). The house in Iowa got hit frequently, even with bird silhouettes and other things on the windows. The most common were the robins (maybe not the smartest of birds to begin with).

 

• pentaxuser

• Mar 3, 2017

The toning really suits the picture

 

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  awty

• Mar 3, 2017

Sad, but nicely photographed.