Is it karma, or is it some kind of suicidal bird ritual?
This morning on my way to work, yet another bird dived in front of me, smacking into the front of my car. This one haphazardly flew away as I watched stunned, realizing that there was nothing I could do and no way I could stop in 50 mph traffic.
I wasn’t as shaken by this one as I had been in May, but it was upsetting nonetheless. Did the bird just get stunned, or did it die of injuries later? This is the second time in a little over a month that I have hit a bird, the third time that I’ve witnessed avian injury. This is really bothering me. What’s worse is imagining how many birds must die this way if the law of averages holds true. And how many people kill them without feeling the depth of grief that I do.
A grief which seems to be lessening each time. I don’t want it to lessen.
When I lived in S. Illinois that kind of thing happened to me every day. However, it usually involved very large deer. Then it is not a matter of apathy towards the animal but fear and self-defense for yourself as these things can do some serious damage.
I once had a bat get caught in my windshield, then I had to get him out with a stick and a pair of gloves. That was just creepy.
I know the feeling. About 4 years ago I had a Month where if my wife was in the car with me, animals would wait by the road, and at the last minute, run under by car. Cats, Rabbits, Squirls, Birds. Then on the 30th. It stopped. Not just one here and there, and average of 2 a day…. It was weird….To this day my wife and I refer it as the “Month of Suicidal Animals”