You can save a few birds

Many of us have had a bird smack into a window in our homes and seen the bird stunned on our decks or the ground. If it’s very cold out, the bird may die of hypothermia in only a short time. I’ve constructed “bird rescue boxes and given them away to friends. Mine are insulated and made of wood that’s heavy enough that the wind won’t blow them around. You can easily make one that works almost as good from a shoe box, it’s just the right size for songbirds. The box helps to keep them warm and allows them to recover their senses free of the urge to fly off before they are recovered. Oh, we also have strips and dots on our windows (and the fixed windows are tilted out at the top to reduce the amount of reflected sky a bird sees). The population of our eastern songbirds has fallen significantly in the last few years. Every little bit helps.