I found a friend on the road while cycling around town.

I heard chicks dug... chicks...

So I was heading out for a bike ride this afternoon and stopped early when I saw this guy sitting on the gravel road leading out of the house. I stopped and thought I'd take a photo but got too close to him (around 10 cm from his face) and he decided to awkwardly run away. He managed to flap his wings a bit and get some air, but it was more like a chicken flight than that of a blackbird. At that point my Dad saw my camera bag and my bike alone in the middle of the driveway and probably thought I had been abducted by aliens. When he found me I explained that yes I had been abducted by aliens but that was a long time ago and that now I had to unhinge my jaw and and feast on the little bird I'd found like any good reptilian would do. My Dad and Mom, who had just joined us, were shocked! "You found a bird?!... Where?!". So I retracted my mandible jaws and pointed to the stack of tiles under which the bird was most likely hiding from me. At that point, birdy decided that he wanted to come out and my Dad gently took him. We took him home. Before you boo me, I have to say: The thing was retarded! I mean, we caught it really easily. The neighbourhood cat/cougar/tiger thing walking around would have turned this guy into easily 2 minutes of entertainment and we would have had him as an offering on our door step the next morning. True, now we have a pretty big responsibility to keep him in good health until he learns to fly, but I'm sure we'll bring him up to be the best damn Ostrich in Lorcy!

Chip, chip, chip...

Working on our routine...

Seriously, aerodynamics fail...

After all this I went for a 13.2 km bike ride. :)


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