bitten

I got bitten by a magpie. We came home one afternoon and got the baby bird a drink and a banana and made some coffee for us and sat down in the living room and I noticed that a small pair of scissors had fallen from the windowsill so I leant over to pick them up and saw out of the corner of my eye a movement behind the curtain. When I pulled it back a magpie started crazily trying to fly through the window/curtain/wall in terror. Eventually I managed to catch it without damaging it's wings and just as I was taking it out into the woods it bit me on the finger. Not suprising but suprisingly painful for a creature with no teeth......anyway it flew off so the story has a good ending.

Today we were at a friend's house and the baby bird fell over and bit her tongue. It bled and bled but I thought it was probably ok as it's such a fast healing part of your body. She was really grumpy and winey after that for quite a while but I thought it was because it was hot not because of her tongue so much. Anyway, when we got home I managed to have a good look at her mouth and saw that the cut was really bad....she actually bit a bit out of the middle of her tongue it looks like and it's all bruised and there's a big dark red welt. Poor baby. Considering the injury I thought she had been a real trooper all day so I gave her an ice lolly to numb her mouth before she had her bath. I know it will heal really quickly but that's the most blood I've ever seen of hers and it made me a bit sad. Anyway, the lolly and a bit of distractive play with sunglasses seemed to help and hopefully it will heal lots overnight....