RELEASE DAY

Today was the day for release of Winston, we took him on the patio and saw if he wanted to go free, and he appeared to do just that, he hopped across the stones and flew in a fashion down to the mound of plants, he seemed to know where he was going, we thought great, no more feeds and he is happy....But got back with the dogs to find him out side the bifolds asking for food, the cats hadn't bothered him and shadow hadn't kissed him(if you know what I mean!).. I couldn't believe my yes, so we fed him for a while and thought  "I know we will take him up to the woods and give him a chance to mix with a ll the other birds....3 hours later he was back yet again this time by the back door...how weird is this, I didn't believe Pete at first  as he said Winston was back with suitcases this time!!!! We then thought we will have to make a makeshift home in our brand new kitchen.. I really thought those days were behind us, I really didn't want to be hand rearing anything again, just wanted a calm clean life....but winston had other ideas, he was moving in whether we liked it or not!!! so we made him (rather ironically) a home in a cat box to keep the cats out not in!... He has been singing in there ever since and wants feeding now so I will have to go shortly as he is getting louder and louder!!!... All this was after we went to check on the swallows in the feed store, their mum had left them, they can fly now, but they were stuck in a bucket with water in, so we had to dry them off, we think we had saved two but the third doesn't look hopeful. After sitting in the feed store watching to see if they were ok for a couple of hours, we made them an easier landing pad and more comfy, they seemed to dry off quite nicely....talk about a doctor dolittle day!!!! what a nightmare I thought The Mill was a change of lifestyle, not looking hopefully right now!!!>.. anyway must go ruddy Winston is really going for it now!!!