"The fairies only left Orkney when folk stopped seekin' them" - Anonymous Orcadian
"Never be afraid to seek" - Ally

Sunday, March 25, 2007

I'm Harbouring A Killer...

...a bird killer!

The body of a poor, innocent wee sparrow was lying in the grass at the whirli-gig for the clothes as I hung some washing out this afternoon.

It looked unharmed, and certainly wasn't half-eaten or anything (which actually makes it WORSE... a motiveless murder), so I can only hope - without carrying out a post mortem - that the poor thing was flying over, had a heart attack, and was dead before it knew what had happened to it... but I suspect foul play.

My chief suspects are black and white, and currently asleep downstairs.

I will teach those cats to be bird-WATCHERS, not killers!

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