Birders

Not your fault. It would have been quick for the bird in your case.

My cousin and I would pick up birds that had flown into her cottage kitchen window and try and nurse them back to health. It involved getting my doctor mother on the case. She grew up on a farm with chickens and hated, hated, birds of any kind. I don't know that we ever saved a bird. We buried at least 2. Such is the precarious situation of nature meeting civilization.

We had a hummingbird fly into the screened in porch and get his beak stuck in the screen. By the time I saw it, it had died or starved. A bigger, heavier bird would have fallen and then escaped. The hummingbird was so light it just got stuck. Afterwards, my dad put up a lifesize, metal cat ornament with green gem eyes to scare the hummingbirds away from that part of the garden.

You can't do anything about driving to mitigate what happened to you. Just bad luck.