Dead Baby Birds

None of this has very much to do with music. Sorry.

Title says it all really. I've had a really tough time recently and this just summed it up. Two wood pigeons decided to nest in a tree outside my house. They had two squabs, who were just getting ready to fly. They got attacked by a magpie when their parents were away. One had its throat ripped out, was thrown onto my path, and was left twitching and covered in flies when I found it. The vet had to put it down. (They didn't charge anything, I'd have paid.)

That bird was the lucky one. I hadn't realised, but its brother was still in the nest. The parents weren't coming back and the magpie came back for it. It probably suffered for ten hours before it died.

The mother came back the next day. You wouldn't have thought a wood pigeon could cry, but it sure sounded like it.