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Originally Posted by Patricia
We've got that, in both English and French. It is an interesting read.
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it was on my list already but now i've moved it significantly higher.
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I've spent the day interviewing potential tutors and attempting to rescue a seagull chick.
I was just saying goodbye to a candidate when I saw a bunch of our admin staff outside, staring at a small grey bird. He had fallen from the gulls' nest on our roof (on the second floor, or third floor if you are in continental Europe) and was squawking furiously. The parent gulls were dive-bombing anyone who went near. It wasn't safe because the road is quite busy.
After a bit of trouble I caught the chick, who had no feathers but was covered in a soft grey down, and went to see the porter, so as to restore the bird to his nest on the roof. The porter claimed that there was no access to the roof, so I left the bird (to be called for) while I went to interview someone else. Meanwhile, the secretaries were getting instructions from the RSPB. Afterwards I went to retrieve the chick, and discovered that the porter had got security to take it away. The security person claimed that he was going to put the bird back. But he didn't. The parents were still searching for it when I went home at 6pm. The secretaries are furious and I'm annoyed. We could have put the bird back quite easily if security had let us get to the roof. And several people had offered to foster the bird if it was necessary. We shall be making a fuss about this on Monday morning.
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that would have made me really angry. i really hate it how arrogant some people are towards other species, as if just because they aren't human we shouldn't bother to help them, or respect them, or treat them with kindness. when i was a child my parents knew an old woman who would take in injured or sick birds, or fledgelings who had fallen from their nest and couldn't be restored to it. occasionally a cat would catch one, and we would rescue it when possible and bundle it in a shoe box and rush to take it to her ; i always beleived that no matter how badly injured it was, if we just could get it to the bird lady it would be saved. i'm glad to know there are other people who will go to such lengths for a baby bird as well. it sounds like angelism, but showing kindness to helpless creatures gives me hope for us as a species.