France in Focus

There was terrible blue picture of an Exotic ‘lipsticked’ song bird in the latest printed French Connexion recently a Leiothrix lutea
I know it as a Red Billed Leiothrix It knocked itself out on the kitchen window a few years back

Lovely looking bird. If it is tame enough to sit on a finger, does that mean it is a domestic, caged bird?

We have had quite a few birds kissing the windows, they sit happily on your hand while they recover their wits. The window stickers do not seem to help much in warning them of a coming encounter.

Lovely little bird. I've seen them around here.

I didn’t read the bit about crashing. Sorry.

I remembered another lovely creature that had a collision with our windows in the Aude a few years back A Firecrest

Black and white, too young for a window collision.

City birds seem to find out early
How to open windows with just a song
A lot of food and they won't have to worry
They'll dress up all in colour, fly in style...