May 20, 2012
What a strange day this was! I got a flat tire and had to put on the spare…saw a car crash on the way back from getting an ice cream cone…and rescued a bird that was drowning in my pool. It was a baby robin, flapping like mad, and I fished it out with a broom. The poor thing was wiped out and just sat there, clinging to the broom, panting. I set it down in the neighbor’s yard underneath the nearest robins’ nest and hoped for the best. A little later, when I went out to check, the baby was still alive but sitting in the same spot. There was hope, though: another robin popped out of a nearby bush with a worm in its beak and landed about two feet away from the baby. I left them like that…and when I checked once more tonight, the baby was gone. I’m choosing to think he fully recovered.
