This is a black-throated blue warbler. It flew into our glass doors at the cottage, right beside where my mom was inside reading, and fell onto the deck, stunned. My mom and I tried to help it (my mom gently nudged it on its front with a dustpan). It lay there, blinking and gasping, as I fretted, and then got to its feet and stood there for a bit. We thought it was a female based on the drab coloring (I learned that from Hair). It let me get quite close for this picture and didn’t seem to be scared (reacted to sound of the click). Then an ant crawled under it and I think tickled it - suddenly she flew up, back into the window but not hard, and then away off into a nearby tree. She left behind a little pool of birdie poop, and the ant, trapped in it. The wonders of the natural world. All we can do is hope that, when life sends us careening into glass doors, we too can make such a swift recovery - and that, when that happens, we are the bird, and not the ant.
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Black-Throated Blue Warbler [Bird-Friends.com]
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