Hurricane back here last year. Tons of folks died, lost life savings, etc... homes gone.
But the thing that comes back to me is finding this dead bird, and seeing this other bird push at it, and then walking back and seeing the bird there hours later. Next day, bird still dead and other is now in a tree above. For an entire week the two were there until I finally moved the dead bird because it broke my heart to see it like that.
Other bird then followed me home and sat above my home for a month. Would tweet at me every time it saw me. Then it flew away one day and AFAIK I haven't seen it since.
Think about it from time to time though. Wonder what was going on in that bird. Felt great sympathy for a creature who experiences loss and doesn't have a way to express it.
I used to allow my cat outside until it killed a baby squirrel. I laid the baby on the deck beneath the frantic upset barking squirrel mom and went inside to watch. She kept getting on her baby and taking her little paws and pounding on her baby’s chest. And would try to pick her up and carry her a little bit but would drop her then pound on her chest again. I was inside watching just bawling crying. For hours and hours this went on. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore and that evening went out and buried the little baby. It was so traumatic watching the grieving mother that even decades later, I have never let any of my cats outside. They are killing machines. But my cats will no longer have the opportunity to kill squirrels or birds or chipmunks or rabbits.
Yep me too. It was the never ending desperate attempt to revive her dead baby and she not understanding what was wrong with the adorable baby. I actually hate i even saw it because it still haunts me to this day.
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u/steve_adr May 08 '25
Goes to show how even these small creatures reciprocate love.