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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

R.I.P. little birdie.

A terrible thing happened today. The little bird has died.

This picture was taken in the morning when he was still happy sitting on the fence. He was flying further than ever before and we were ever so happy seeing him. It was a hot day and we hadn't seen his mom for a while so after we came back shopping we made a very undeep plate for him filled with water. It was his first time ever that he saw water but he soon learned how to drink and bathe. It was such a wonderfull thing to see. Untill he kept falling over backwards...

We took him out of the water and noticed he wasn't moving his left wing and leg anymore and he couldn't keep his head up. Eventually we put him in a shoebox-lid where he could rest his head on the edge and we sat next to him for almost an hour watching his every move. Unfortunately he started breathing slower and slower and in the end died after a short wiggle of his little tail and right wing. Eventhough many people will think it was just a bird, we were rather devastated and somewhat emotional after witnessing his progress of the past 4-5 days.

I'm still very sad.

Note: Later I read on the internet that you should never let a baby bird drink water by itself because it easily chokes. I'm still puzzled why it was breathing after we took it out and why he could only use 1 side of his limbs...

We had a drink and cake at the Central Market

Santa was there too and had a rather lovely looking little helper with him who unfortunately managed to make herself invisible...

After the bird-tragedy I wanted to go to the beach. Apart from the fact that it's just really nice to be at the beach I also needed some distraction. Pictured is the jetty where people often fish for crab. In the back you can see rain comming down. Unfortunately it was watering the sea instead of the land.