if i was a religious zealot or a con artist i might be able to get publicity and ebay $$ by publishing this pic as an image of the "holy spirit" in the form of the dove of peace.
can you see the image of the bird, wings extended in an upward arc?
but i'm not either of the above so i will tell you the truth.
it is the greasy imprint of a mourning dove left on my front window after he crashed into it head-on.
this happens all the time due to the often frenzied activity around the bird feeders outside this particular window.
the day after christmas i had to fill 2 tube feeders with sunflower seed twice in one day--there were close to a hundred goldfinches and pine siskins (infrequent visitors) working the feeders all day long.
they would periodically softly bang against the window and move off.
but not the guy pictured above. i expected to go out and find his lifeless body in the hedge, but didn't.
he sure got his christmas bell rung, though.
i love the soft song of the mourning dove but they are definitely the pea brains of the bird world.
they love to build rickety nests in our rain gutters; nests that promptly get carried away in the first downpour after construction.
and then mom and pop are right back at it, rebuilding in the same location. whenever i hear the term " bird-brain" the image of a mourning dove comes up on the screen in my head.
so---happy new year and watch where the heck you're going in 2009!! ; )
