Our Daily Bird 65: Stained Glass Sparrow
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 10:52AM 
If you are looking for bird images in stained glass church windows, you will usually find a white dove bearing the weight of religious imagery from ancient stories. I like the bird in this stained glass - a white-crowned sparrow that finds itself memorialized in the window of a 13th century church in Norfolk, England. It drew a crowd when it landed in the vicar's garden having completed a 3,000 mile journey across the Atlantic to become only one of four white-crowned sparrows to ever be spotted in Great Britain.
The crowds took up a collection to have this memorial made and it inspires me more than many a dove. I like the idea of remembering something that pleasantly surprised you simply because it was out of place, hung around a while, and then flew away again. Here's to all those who get lost and decide to keep flying.
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Reader Comments (2)
O my God . How beautifully designed and stained glass sparrow. Amazing and really appreciable work.
It looks like the living sparrow sitting in the window.
Stained glass windows in my church have no birds but the story of the white crowned sparrow flying so far is fascinating. It shows the wonder of nature at its best. They must have in a built in GPS system. The stained glass window with the sparrow in it is beautiful.