I was just sitting here surfing earlier when I heard a thud on the lounge window right next to me which made me jump. I immediately thought it might have been a bird but it was only after a few minutes looking down into the garden below that I spotted a tiny green bird lying on the ground looking very still and very dead. Despite my prediction of a broken neck and being the big soft lad he is, Osem Jnr. went to see if he could do anything. On touching the bird he found it was still warm with its eyes closed and actually still clinging to the grass on which it landed. He gently picked it up and put it out of harm's way nearby then quickly left it alone. It was obviously stunned as it just stood there for a good 10 mins totally still until he then heard a brief tweet and it was gone in a flash. It was such a cute little thing, a Goldcrest, even smaller than a Wren and Europe's smallest bird IIRC. There's a picture here for anyone who's interested.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...&ved=0CIYBENUX
A happy end to just one of the infinite number of life and death events going on around us all the time which we rarely ever notice.
