The Day Started With A Cheep

Our cats make lots of noises - meep, feep, miaow & howwwwwwl all playing their part in the morning cats chorus.

But "Cheep" is not a cat noise.

It was that that woke me at 6 this morning.

Somehow one of the baby redstarts had found its way into the house and as is her wont, Munni-Cat brought it to me.

As you know my back isn't great at the minute but as soon as I heard "Cheep" I was out of bed and picked up the fledgling before cat mischief could get serious.

It was still alive and was quickly put out on a window ledge on the first floor (just above its nest box).  It took 30 minutes to recover but it flew away.

Put that together with the vole I rescued yesterday and I reckon I earned a few karma points.  Of course I don't get to make that decision.  But helping is what I do.

And it rained again today.  I much prefer 21°C and rain than 40°C and forest fires.  21°C is warm enough.  And we need the rain after 6 years of summer droughts.