Meet my crazy little Blue Bird Friend. I say crazy because. He or see, was trying to get into my villa while I was vacationing recently with two lady friends at Marriott's Monarch in Hilton Head. I'm on the inside taking the picture with my cell phone through the glass (dirty) and screen door (dirty). You hear of birds flying into really clean windows, but this sliding glass door and screen were anything but clean. There was construction being done on the balcony (which was off limits to us as a result). So, lots of extra dirt due to the construction and a good amount of yellow pollen from the Pine trees. Soooooo, pretty sure this little guy wasn't confused about it.
Clearly he is staring right inside. It was early, I wasn't yet out of bed and heard a tapping, and frankly thought the workers were early. Quickly got up to look out on the patio when I see this bird jumping up from this dirty lounge chair (notice bird droppings), and hitting his head on the glass. Over and over, thus the noise I heard. I ran towards the glass hoping my movement would make it stopped, fly away or something. Was afraid it was going to hurt itself. It would take flight to the other side of the balcony and perch on the ledge. Good I thought, problem solved.
He turned around and flew back. Again perched on the chair and started jumping up/flying up and hitting it's head...tap, tap, tap. He did this multiple times. Each time I thought I had him chased off, he'd come back. This went on for about 10 minutes while I was standing there. Obviously longer considering I could hear it before going to the door to see what was going on.
I kept taking pictures, at various stages. Finally several other birds, coastal bird types landing on the balcony ledge and when they flew off, the Blue Bird joined them. I was relieved.
I was surprised to see a Blue Bird on the coast. We were ocean front for one and for two...as I mentioned how dirty the glass and screen were wouldn't think it would be confused...AND once it tried to fly through and hit it's head......why didn't it stop?
Later that afternoon, the Blue Bird returned; but by then the chair had been moved (due to construction) and the bird couldn't sit on it to fly up to hit his head. He perched awhile on the ledge, and flew off. We didn't see the bird again for the rest of our trip.
I'm not a birder, but enjoy watching them at times. Blue Birds are in the Turdidate Family. They are a North American medium sized bird that is primarily insectivorous and omnivorous.
This link will take you to a site where a link to click to hear the pretty chirp. CLICK HERE
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