On 2016-07-31 1:48 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> We got a skunk (or perhaps two) this morning. I wasn't involved, since
> I'm not nuts and I don't kill animals. Except for the time I dispatched
> a purple finch that had flown into the patio door and was obviously
> in extreme distress and from which it never would recover. I cried
> like a baby as I laid a newspaper over it (so I wouldn't have to see
> it die) and hit it with a shovel. My husband was out of town, or he
> would have taken care of it.
>
I hate to tell you, but you can't be too sure about a bird's chances of
recovery. I have seen birds go down after hard window strikes but they
got up, dusted themselves off and flew away. Broken bones can heal.
Most of those birds are young and young bones mend quickly. A birds
broken bones can mend within a week.