In late morning today, I was alerted to the presence of a sizable dead bird lying near the edge on a first floor roof of a home on the edge of Norwich village. A homeowner kindly invited me to look down through his 2nd floor window from which without binoculars at several yards distance I could see on a roof below a feathered carcass which resembled a medium sized hawk with a relatively short tail. It was not until later in the day when the carcass had been retrieved from the roof and then shown to me that I realized that the bird was a relatively freshly killed Ruffed Grouse which had met an unfortunate end. I had previously seen situations where Ruffed Grouse had died flying into windows close to the ground. The presumption has been that a grouse on the ground looks upward, sees open sky reflected in a window above, then flies up in that direction and fatally strikes the window. The situation today was unusual in that presumably the bird struck a 2nd floor window, high off the ground, and then fell backward onto the edge of the first floor roof below. George Clark Norwich, VT