Among a wealth of birds...2

At the Arundel duckworld some of the ducks were caged in large landscaped pens. These were presumably the rarer species less accustomed to survival with rivals, put there to remove all possible risks and ease them back into numbers. In one of these contained environments, a small yellow bird flittered into view. It was either a yellow wagtail or a grey wagtail. Both have distinctive breast yellownesses. With hindsight I’d say it was the yellow wagtail.

It was confined in the cage as far as we could see; as far as we could see, there were no escape holes in the mesh. The yellow wagtail flew around the cage in and out of view and outshone the rare ducks like a secret bonus bird.

We wondered if it was happy in that cage without family and potential mates. The bird attendees must know it’s in there and have deemed it appropriate to leave it in there, and we trust them to know what’s best for the birds, but still it seems a bit lonely.