An Early Lesson The
Hard Way For Baby Dunnock
8th May 2012
Watching the news on TV I
suddenly caught site of a fast moving object out of the corner of my eye coming
towards the patio door. Thud, a little bird hit the floor and wriggled about,
oh no I thought, it’s dead. I jumped up and ran outside to see in fact it was
not but struggling to cling on to life. My next thought was to try and get it
off the floor and to some sort of cover for safety. The Dunnock had this
already planted in its defence system it seemed as it hopped straight towards
some ivy under a tree. I went over to see it collapsed and flopped over on its
side. I feared the worst, I quickly picked it up and tried to stroke some life
back into it, well that was my thought anyway. Come on, come on I kept saying
as if some spoken words would make a difference. It was limp, slowly but slowly
though its little eyes started to open and a look of normality started to
resume, I could feel its little heart beat was steady and it felt warm, it gave
a few kicks and its little claws started to pull against my hand, so with a
long phew I stroked it a bit more, carefully opened my hand and it took off
into the evening sky. What a result !
Photograph was taken using my
other hand, tricky but doable using an old Nikon D50 camera and Nikon 50mm 1.8D
lens
Andy Sharpe.