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[tiger_moran]

We (me and my brother) were taking my dog over to the woods and just as we were crossing the slip road in front of the house to go to the main road we saw a sparrow lying on its side on the road, I thought it was dead initially but then it was sort of twitching slightly then we thought it must have been hit by a car and my brother was seriously considering killing it because he thought it was injured and suffering but its beak was gaping and it was lying right in the sun on the tarmac road so I thought then it must have collapsed from the heat. I picked it up and it didn't seem hurt so I carried it across the main road (it was like carrying air, it weighed nothing) and put it in the shade of the trees on the other side of the cemetery railings then I had to come back and take it some water in a yoghurt pot. I splashed some water on it and it was sitting up then instead of lying on its side but it wouldn't drink anything then so we left it with the water while we went to the woods where we found some of the grass near there had been on fire. It was out but there were still some firefighters and police up there and a big charred bit. I hope we get plenty more rain soon because we do not want a repeat of last year when a big area of the wheat field caught fire when they were harvesting it (a lot of the hedgerows are still bare where they got burned away).
Anyway I was completely expecting the bird to be in the same place dead when we came back but when we did come back the pot of water was still there but we couldn't see any sign of the sparrow anywhere dead or alive so I hope just maybe it did make it.