Friday, August 04, 2006

I Found an Emerald

Everyone should know i am a keen wildlife nutcase but today i am acting as god, I was walking along the road near my house after doing some shopping, it was near Chuck Norris's mums house,( enormously big house )and i almost trod on this jewel i saw on the floor, it was a tiny bright shimmering green hummingbird that was doing its impression of jesus on the cross, it was on its back with its wings out and playing dead, i really thought it was dead, but being me i picked it up to look at the fantastic feathers on this bird, even though i was looking at it i was still convinced it was dead and i still was going to take it home for the Jenny and the kids to take a look. but as i was walking back to th house with my green dazzling jewel in my hand i noticed its miniscule eyelid flicking up and down, i took a really close look at it and i saw a faint chest movement and a slow blink of the eye, but it was dazed to nothing, it couldnt keep its eyes open and was out for the count, it must have been hit by a car or something, i was even more careful with it and when i got home the first thing i did was make some sugar water and put some on a spoon and gave it a drink, these things burn food faster than you can imagine and can die of lack of energy, so this was drinking lots and lots and even though it looked drunk it was taking it from the spoon. i then put it down as i was preparing for my next crazy journey for work, out on the patio on a plant away from the ants. i went back an hour later and gave it some more food and it was looking perkier but not happy and still wasnt able to fly, so i put it back and went to watch some TV, the good news is that when i went back 1 hour later it had flown up to a small branch on a fern and was looking almost alert but it still let me take hold of it but it was complaining this time and didnt take any food so i just put him back and hopefully tomorrow it will be able to fly and feed, i am putting out my feeder to perhaps give it a start but i am still not really hopeful , these poor tiny creatures are so fragile that this may just be too much for the tiny thing to be able to cope with but once again i did try and do my part. this makes me so angry at what we humans are doing with this wonderful planet, taking all and leaving nothing behind apart from piles of garbage. Tomorrow i leave for the end of the world, equatorial guinea west africa , for an emergency visit so i was told, via Florence in Italy for my visa, what a crappy route i am taking, suffering shitloads of jetlag and crappy airline food all for 20 days in Africa, what is it all coming to.

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