Posted by Toe on November 18, 2015 at 00:39:25
OK, it did not die. It came right back to life and flew back up to the fence, as the attached photo shows. The previous photo is real. The bird was coming down to the grass to pick insects, and on one of those attempts it just lied down with its wings spread and stayed there for about a minute. I've never seen a bird do that. I looked like it was dead, but then flew back up and kept doing what it's been doing. Really interesting behavior.