I PREVIOUSLY wrote of a bird who knocked insistently at our front door just when we happened to be talking about him.

We see birds fly by our windows all the time. They live their busy lives parallel to ours. They peck and forage at the ground outside. But they occasionally appear — perhaps this is just projection — to tire of the great outdoors. They want in.

Is it possible that just as we wish we could fly, they wish they could sit in a chair? You know, the grass is always greener …

In fact, a little, chirping wren walked right in our back door a few months ago. After flying through the living room and up the stairs, into the bathroom and around the bed where my husband was peacefully snoring, he clearly had had enough and wanted to leave. The indoors might look intriguing from the other side of the window, but perhaps aren’t that interesting, from an avian perspective. Maybe the same thing would happen if we could soar through the sky. I don’t know, but I would like to try.

Here is the touching story of a cardinal who knocked at someone’s window. Robert Barrow writes:

As we removed the final assortment of clutter, preparing to lock the door for the last time and depart, I walked into the living room where my sister had died with the assistance of Hospice months ago — checking one more time — and my attention was suddenly beckoned to a large window on this breezy fall afternoon.

Sharing his efforts between the branches of a tree on which he perched off and on and the air in which he flapped about, pecking repeatedly at the glass, was a beautiful male cardinal, his reds and blacks amply displayed on his chubby, feathered bird body.

I called out to other family members, and one snapped a few photos (one is displayed here) as the bird seemingly attempted to enter the house, frustrated in its imminent failure.  Never had we witnessed this bird and his obvious desperation to gain entry — or, some would suggest, to deliver a message.

Bird psychology is not fully understood. Perhaps the cardinal wanted to sing a tune to cheer up this sad family.

Here is one for you — and for tender-hearted cardinals everywhere.

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