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u24 we saw it, alive, last night.
What could we do?
phoned the rspca, they were closed.

let nature take its course; thousands of chicks fall out of their nests every day.

walked past it today, laying in the same spot, dead. poor thing.

it doesn't actually upset me very much. i do feel detachedly sad for it, but not very much. we could have saved it. could have taken it home and tried to rear it ourselves, I guess.

if it had been on the other side of the street, we'd never have known. why is the fact that I saw it supposed to make me feel worse? I know that hundreds of birds die every day, mauled by cats or hit by cars or whatever.

so, I saw this one alive, and knew it was going to die. it happens. I'm really not that bothered by it.
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tourist I had once thoght of a photo project of Walking the shoulder of a Highway, and taking pictures of Any Carcass I found, interspaced with Mile Markers as I Passed. My Wife thought it too Morbid, but I Still think it would be an Interesting bit of Coffee Table Art in Glossy Print. 080806
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u24 yeah that would be interesting. I can see it working 080806
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unhinged we often stopped to pick up random car parts on the side of the road. mostly tires, so we were always excited when we stumbled across a muffler. she was going to make some kind of sculpture out of the found/lost parts but i don't think she ever got around to it.



it's hard not to feel at least a little heart_pang for dead baby birds. but, there was something about them that just couldn't fly. nature has a way of picking the appropriate ending. us humans have a sadistic way of prolonging the agony. i.e. 80% of medical costs in a persons entire lifetime come in about the last year of their life in an effort to ward off the inevitable outcome of death. (might be a little off with the number; it was something i learned in religion class many years ago but it was so absurd to me it stuck in my brain; also when the death of my own grandmother was closer, more fresh, more hurtful)
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unhinged (she also used to stop and take pictures of dead animals on the side of the road; always had a morbid sense of humor. on a trip to texas to visit her boyfriend's family she took a picture of a dead armadillo and sent a print to me. it was oddly fascinating. like when everyone slows down on the opposite side of the highway to look at a wreck) 080806
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u24 i should have just stamped on it's head. would have probably been a more humane death than letting it shiver and anguish for hours. 090327
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carrion crows true enough, though a quick snap of the neck would have been just as sure and less gruesome 090327
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u24 One where doing the_good_in_front_of_us would have worked as a moral_compass 140507
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