April 11th 2010

Its been a week and 2 days since she has been with us. We have a routine for her now -- we take her out to the balcony as soon as we are up, change her play pen, dust the crumbs, refill the water dish and take her in when we can't have an eye out for her. Then she is left to her devices the entire day till we come back from work. Wonder whether she gets bored of being alone. Wonder if birds can go crazy from solitude.

She is growing and becoming more and more vicious. She practically would have had the top of my index finger in her mouth if she had a sharper beak. So I try not to touch her more than necessary. She's learnt to pick food off the ground and eat insects with particular relish. And today she learnt to balance herself on the rim of the water bowl and washed her face!

But it really breaks our heart to see her staring up at the other sparrows who can fly. We feel said and pained, but is she consumed by self pity like we humans are? She tries to resist us with all her strength and does not realise that we are trying to help her. Maybe God does things which are good for us and we keep fighting against it!