27-08-2023, 12:31 PM
Oh Jan, that is awful news. Just as well your lot are made of strong stuff!
I came in from transplanting the pot of primulas into the garden so they can cast their seed in there and went to the window to check on the waxeyes apple in the whisk. There were two waxeyes sitting on a branch focused on another one head down, not moving beak deep in the apple. I watched for a full minute and the little bird wasn't moving, completely still, with its neck at a strange angle. In utter horror, thinking I had killed one of these tiny treasures, I opened the door, startling the two watchers, and waking up the still one, who obviously had fallen asleep over its lunch...
The relief was enormous, lol.
I came in from transplanting the pot of primulas into the garden so they can cast their seed in there and went to the window to check on the waxeyes apple in the whisk. There were two waxeyes sitting on a branch focused on another one head down, not moving beak deep in the apple. I watched for a full minute and the little bird wasn't moving, completely still, with its neck at a strange angle. In utter horror, thinking I had killed one of these tiny treasures, I opened the door, startling the two watchers, and waking up the still one, who obviously had fallen asleep over its lunch...
The relief was enormous, lol.