Eye Spy by Charles A. Gramlich

"Eye Spy" is one of those stories that just smacks you in the gut.  Charles starts you off in a world of birds that is so beautiful and vivid that you just want to be standing next to the narrator as he tells you about the view through his window.  Then everything goes to hell and you're left shuddering in the aftermath.  You can read the story over at Beat to a Pulp