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| 'Cardinal' stickpin; sterling silver, colored pencil, mineral glass; Kathleen Faulkner |
Sunday morning I awoke to what sounded like someone pounding something outside my window. It was dawn and I was not happy. I went outside to see who was being so rude. I saw nothing.
Next morning, dawn, pounding, I'm not happy. I get up look out and see a robin attacking the neighbor's garage windows. At 5:45 in the morning I figure they don't want to be disturbed so I get the ladder and some cardboard to tape over the windows. I leave a note. Good, mission accomplished.
Later that day, pounding coming from the living room. I look and the robin looks back. I put up a curtain. Mission accomplished.
This morning I am wakened by pounding. I follow the sound to the furnace room. I see little marks all over the window from the robin's beak.. poor, worn out robin. I cover the window with a piece of matt board. Mission accomplished.
Cardinals and Robins are very territorial birds. They see their reflection in a window and attack thinking it is an intruder. Sometimes they will keep attacking until they die and, if they don't die, they will remember and come back for more the next season.
