How I spent My 81 Day Time Out - Part 2: Wild Asses Licked My Car

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38. Jackson is right, cats are predators too.

The bird thing... once upon a time I lived in central Wisconsin where there were cardinals. I had a friend who also had them bashing his windows. One killed itself doing that, being a scientist he dissected it to see if there was something he could find about the bird. He found some kind of parasite had infested its skull. A behavioral aspect is also that they see themselves in the reflection in the glass and, therefore, attack it thinking it's a competitor... as was the case with other cardinals, some of whom also smashed themselves to death and weren't infested with some parasite. The answer was putting up some kind of mesh that you can see through like mosquito mesh or normal window screen mesh during mating and rearing season.

I think the little observer of the tape application was thinking that a little bling in the nest might be really attractive.