Skillfullness

[spiritnoname]

 Today I was in the backyard and I noticed a bird fluttering near my feet. It flew a little bit, but didn't go high or far, and I thought it was injured. So I grabbed a container and was going to catch it, I could have with my hands but didn't want to get any disease if it had a virus. It kept trying to get away, hiding underneath plants and behind things, sometimes getting caught up in vines and staying still. It was frantic but it didn't seem too afraid of me being near. I cornered it and then it took off into the air flying and then was grabbed by a hawk and eaten in a nearby tree.

 I realize I'm inadequate on so many levels now.
 I didn't notice that it was being hunted and trying to hide for it's life even though it's expressions pointed to such a thing.
 I didn't just grab it with my bare hand quickly and take it inside.
 I forced it to fly into the open air where it could be easy prey. 

 Just a little while after this bird was picked off, the backyard had a lot of little birds eating bird seed happily like normal. Isn't that sad? At any moment a bigger bird might come along and eat them alive, ripping them into portions and swallowing them. The other birds don't seem to notice and are content for the moment though. Like watching a dog being playful but knowing that it's going to be euthanized soon,.. 

 Pretty soon it will be reborn and it won't remember how much it suffered, at least samsara's a little kind in limiting how long we can experience pain.

[Crazywisdom]

I once rescued a fly from a puddle it was drowning in, put him somewhere warm to dry and after a few minutes he took off and flew straight into a spiders web....

You can't odds it sometimes 

This didn't just happen to you only, its not that you killed a bird, thats the only story, Spirit killed a bird, no (not that you did kill it). There were at least three beings involved, each bringing their own input to the incident, their own karmas.  Truth be told you are not that important in the big scheme of things, none of us are 

Your intenions were good, it went wrong, learn from it and let it go.

crazy 

[spiritnoname]

 I don't really feel like I killed the bird, it's just I had the ability to notice what was going on and I didn't because I wasn't paying attention.

 Maybe a year ago something similar happened to me, I saved a bug and it immediately ran into a spider's web and was grabbed. I guess sometimes a being's karma to die is so strong that the circumstances don't really matter so much.

[randy002sg]

Yes, can identify with that a bit.

A tiny moth flies into the window and my cat is alerted to it.   In my eagerness to shield the insect from the feline, too much force is used and the insect is accidentally killed.  I feel a bit lousy after that.  From that day onwards, more subtle force is used when holding a brittle and fragile insect like a small moth.