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An Unusual Request


Lambert58

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We have a nest of wild finches nestled into an odd spot outside our front door. Today I dragged out my indoor palm plants for a hose-down and discovered that one of this spring's babies had fallen out of the nest and died.

 

No less than an hour later, I found two more of them that had fallen but were still alive. I'll save you the rescue efforts, but a long (and tear-filled) story later, those two died in my hands.

 

It was an emotional afternoon. I did everything I could think of to save them, but God decided otherwise.

 

I wasn't content to let them be eaten by the local bugs, so I buried the three of them together, and they get their own small stone. That stone will move only after I've died, and can no longer wield a shotgun.

 

What I want for those 3 precious little wild ones is names. They get names. I'm too blurry-eyed to think of any, so any input would be great.

 

My wife thinks I'm nuts. But. I'm a physicist and an amateur astronomer. I know how precious life is, and I have a specific affinity to birds. Any life lost affects me (yeah, I literally refuse to watch footage from the BP oilspill, it would kill me).

 

Those little fids that died in my hands today deserve names.

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I understand your sadness as only a few weeks ago i posted about a nest which fall out side my bedroom window :( by the time i had seen this the 3 little chicks were already dead :( Bless them ... We buried them in the garden too. I was thinking about them for days after... Best of luck with names :)

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