Bird watching

One really stupid thing about my school is the library windows. I don't know why we don't fix them. There is nothing wrong with them, per se, except that birds always run into them. It's a rather distracting phenomenon. We have this nice little cove with couches and chairs and tables surrounding a very realistic looking tree. Some other fake greenery finishes off the circle. The cove is surrounded on two sides by periodicles and our music selection -- including albums, which resound with the memories of my childhood. Then the other two sides are these windows. It's very aesthetically pleasing, until you heark chclunk!


chclunk!

chclunk!

And you look up from your book or your blog and realize that a bird has been ramming its little beak into the reflective window.

This is not a seasonal phenomenon. This does not depend on the time of day -- some of our windows on campus change tint from day to night (you can see out during the day and in during the night). But not our library windows.

I've gotten used to the blackbirds and the robins attacking the windows while I'm studying, but recently something disturbing has happened --

With the event of spring sortof coming (One day it is 60 degrees, the next it snows -- literally), cardinals have begun to show up. Growing up, my mom always told me that seeing cardinals meant it was spring. This enigma they presented gave me the feeling that cardinals are important. They have this elegance that other birds don't. Their unique color sets them apart from other birds. They always look alert and beautiful.

But cardinals will also smash into the library windows.

I get annoyed and a little sad at seeing a robin or a blackbird run into a window, but there is something truly despairing about seeing a cardinal run into a window continuously. These beautiful beacons of spring just prove their hidden stupidity and it kindof discredits them as beautiful creatures. I used to that that because they were so much more lovely than the other birds, they had some elevated state of mind -- I guess this disproves gnosticism!