As I was leaving work, I came upon a handsome belted kingfisher sitting motionless on the sidewalk. It
is likely that the bird ran
into the glass windows of my office building and stunned itself. A
little time and it would have been able to fly off perfectly fine, but I
was still concerned. I felt a tug in my heart and sat with the bird for about 20 minutes until I got a response from a park ranger. I picked it up to put
it in a box, and it flew about 10 feet away from me. I picked it up again
and placed it in a large flower pot by the fountain so it could recover
out of site from people or predators. It flew away sometime yesterday
night.
