Another bird, part III

Posted on July 9, 2003 by Gene

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.