Single hen

[The Managing Director]

So sad , the CA dashed down the garden today to check for eggs and came back in a panic to say there was a robin hurt on the path when I got to him he seemed totally still but then I picked him up and he started to flutter, he was only a fledgling so we thought he might survive if we kept him away from the cats, I put him in a box and he even drank some water off my finger, then he just suddenly died really horrid we now have tears from the CA and poor little dead robin in a box, Murdo will have to deal with that I can cope with the injured but the dead are beyond me

 

Don't suppose there was much chance of him recovering really , but once he'd drunk some water really thought there might be, horrid end to horrible day

 

and there were no eggs either

[Martin B]

Poor robin! Children don't cope well with death. Novody does but younger people are the worst at showing it!

[Mrs Frugal]

Oh no, that's so sad, MD. We had a baby starling die in our garden and my youngest was heartbroken. Big hugs to the CA.

[Karen & co.]

Poor soul give CA a big hug.

 

Karen x

[buffie]

I'm really sorry, at least you tried your very best.

 

BBx

[Popcorn]

Have a little burial for it MD, then the CA can say a little goodbye too. Poor bird.

[clare*]

Poor Robin. They are my favourite little birds.

 

I have a Robins next at the bottom of my garden. Its only about waist high in the ivy creeping up the fence.

 

My cat Tilly has been watching the mum and dad flying in and out. I hope she does not catch them

[Lesley-Jean]

At least it had a little bit of kindness at the end of it life

[The Managing Director]

We had lots of tears before bedtime last night the CA is a sensitive soul and so it took all your hugs and a few more to cheer her up, she's fine now though although yeserday was miserable, she started crying for our lovely Brigand (GSD) who died in october, (he died whilst I was stroking him too ) , and for the AWOL cat and even the fish and took all our best efforts to calm her down, funny when Brig died she didn't seem too upset (her first words were 'oh can we have a puppy now' ) but that little robin triggered a storm. I have promised a post for Brig in the pet memorials think she wanted a post for the robin too but I'm not taking a picture of a dead robin

 

No doubt she'll be home from school right as rain and pets are a good way learn about life and death , she has now decided she wants a kitten and some eggs to hatch

[The Dogmother]

So sorry to hear about that MD. Robins are such lovely birds, it might have been dropped by a passing predator and died of shock. Big hugs to CA.

 

 

Rosie was inconsolable for days when our old lurcher died, she still harks back to it sometimes now, a couple of years later.

[fourfinches]

There's a lovely, inexpensive book called "Water bugs & dragonflies" by Doris Stickney which can be useful for explaining deth to children. It uses the analogy of the water bugs' short life under water as our time on earth & their emergence as dragonflies as our life after death. It does look at death from a Christian perspective.

 

Hope this might be of some use.

 

Morag

[Guest]

So sorry to hear about that MD. Robins are such lovely birds, it might have been dropped by a passing predator and died of shock. Big hugs to CA.

 

 

it was probably a cat - evil beasts...

 

we had a pair of robins nesting in the passion flower outside our kitchen window. (I posted some photos a couple of weeks ago..) last week we found a dead fledegling - must have fallen out of the nest (s/he went in the compost heap..) - and since then - we haven't seen the robins going to and fro at all... all the chicks must have been wiped out - which suggests - a cat...

 

mind - despite being very pretty and following you round the garden etc.. robins are nasty little b****rs too - very territorial and ruthless with other "invading" robins...

 

Phil

[The Managing Director]

There's a lovely, inexpensive book called "Water bugs & dragonflies" by Doris Stickney which can be useful for explaining deth to children. It uses the analogy of the water bugs' short life under water as our time on earth & their emergence as dragonflies as our life after death. It does look at death from a Christian perspective.

 

Hope this might be of some use.

 

Morag

 

thankyou Morag, I think I shall get that,

 

PS Willow is a good name for a chicken, isn't it, just hope ours is the only evil Willow

[melcotton]

This happened to us a couple of weeks ago. Robin dying next to the eglu. Did make me wonder whether it was a fox trying to get to the birds though.

 

Mel

[Louise]

 

 

it was probably a cat - evil beasts...

 

 

 

I have to leap to their defence Phil I am afraid. Last year I had a baby Thrush in the garden learning to fly and it was struggling but mum and dad were there so i gathered up the murderous tribe and locked them in to give baby bird the best chance

 

Ten minutes later I heard an awful commotion from the parents and I went out to look and a crow had come down and taken the baby off so it isn't always cats

[Chicken on a mission]

 

 

it was probably a cat - evil beasts...

 

 

 

I have to leap to their defence Phil I am afraid. Last year I had a baby Thrush in the garden learning to fly and it was struggling but mum and dad were there so i gathered up the murderous tribe and locked them in to give baby bird the best chance

 

Ten minutes later I heard an awful commotion from the parents and I went out to look and a crow had come down and taken the baby off so it isn't always cats

 

Your wasting your time

[Louise]

I know but I have to try

[The Dogmother]

I agree Louise, although nothing is safe from the cats in our house - they catch birds, mice, voles and newts

[Guest]

I have to leap to their defence Phil I am afraid. Last year I had a baby Thrush in the garden learning to fly and it was struggling but mum and dad were there so i gathered up the murderous tribe and locked them in to give baby bird the best chance

 

Ten minutes later I heard an awful commotion from the parents and I went out to look and a crow had come down and taken the baby off so it isn't always cats

 

 

I rest my case! the cats' best defense is this?. "Yes we do destroy countless thousands of songbirds every month - but we're not the only ones...??"

 

If I kept a crocodile that went out every night and ate a few cats - I reckon I'd get done for it! But it's OK for people to keep cats who go out every night and scoff their way through our native bird population...

 

yet if Mr foxy eats a couple of our chickens - it's evil nasty Mr Foxy - how can we keep him out of our gardens - he kills birds y'know...

 

foxes need to kill to eat - cats don't - there's whole supermarket aisles devoted to their every whim and fancy..

 

Phil

[Louise]

Yeah but according to 'The Boys' songbird is much much tastier

 

BTW Phil you could keep a crocodile if you wanted to you just need a dangerous wild animal licence which are scarily easy to get

[Guest]

didn't I post a picture of my pet crocodile - in the bath?

 

Phil

[Louise]

Oh yes I forgot that Phil

 

I take it you leave him in the car when doing house visits to little old ladies with weak hearts

[Guest]

..unless it's a quiet week at the crematorium...

 

Phil

[Louise]

 

You are naughty Phil

 

I had a bird encounter this morning - well two actually

 

I was taking my old lawnmower to work to give to someone this morning and I had it in the conservatory with the door open. When I went in to take it outside there was a little Tit sitting on the mat inside the door. When it saw me it flew off

 

I took the mower out put the roof down an the car to fit it in and generally faffed about for 10 minutes came back round and the ruddy bird was in the conservatory again

 

This time it flew round and round hitting every window apart from the space where the door was open

 

I shut the door to stop the monsters helping to catch it and finally manged to get it and let it go what a daft bird and I have no idea what tempted it inside I need to get a sign put up for the birds reminding them that there are three cats living there