Today, a sparrow died in front of my eyes partly due to my incompetency. I buried her in the small lawn outside.

She was a brown small sparrow, I don’t know the exact name of that species. That species has a nest on the lemon plant planted in our neighbor’s courtyard, a part of which extends over the wall to our courtyard. But I don’t think they actually live in the nest during night because in morning, because there are dozens of them, and they can’t all fit inside that nest. They mostly play on that tree and the wall on top of which our neighbors place edible seeds for the birds. Our neighbors had gone out of city few days ago and had asked us to put the fill the clay plates resting on the wall with the seeds, after the dawn prayer. Like the previous days, I had filled them today as instructed. It was after the breakfast that I had went outside and noticed the sparrow strangled up very badly in the plant. Lemon plant has small twingled thorny twigs. She was caught a bit up higher part of the plant. I had laid the chaarpai there, but still I had to pull below the branch to bring it up close, and then attempted to cut the tiny branch along which it was strangled, but in this attempt, the whole plant had gotten many jerks and sudden movements, and she stopped flapping, which marked that she was no longer alive. I finally cut the twig and the sparrow fell on the chaarpai, but alas she no longer responded. I couldn’t verify if she was alive or not, so I took it inside in warm room and sprinkled it with water, etc. But after around fifteen minutes, it was clear she was dead. Looking at her tiny legs, it turned out that she was not just strangled in the twigs, but that there was a thread which had been gotten tightened around her leg. That thread also got cut when I cut the twig. Later, I found a long thread tangled very badly in the twigs. It was perhaps fastened on the plant way long ago to hold it to a certain position but later it might have no longer been necessary, but got strangled in the twigs. So, it seems the sparrow somehow got the thread fastened around her leg, but also got stuck in the twigs and a thorn pierced her resulting in the blood. I don’t know how long ago, she had gotten stuck there. But I don’t think so, it was there before the breakfast. So she could have gotten stuck there anywhere between 1 to 30 minutes before I saw her. The unintended jerks to the plant in my careless attempt to cut the twig probably resulted in her death. Upon inspection, however, the piercing didn’t look too deep and the blood was also very little. Her body will now decompose and become part of the trees around which I buried her. I came back to courtyard after burying her. The sparrows were back hopping around, eating and playing by the plant and the wall. I feel bad for the companion that is no longer with them due to my incompetency.