today i met a little bird upside-down at the side of the road but they were breathing, and their eye moving around red or blood by their butt
i remembered again from my 6th grade biology how birds could have brain damage when striking something, but unlike other animals had evolved to fully regrow their brains i picked them up, very warm, no change in movement much when i lifted them. breathing hard. eye moving, maybe looking at me. i carried them to under a bush, and moved a pricker vine some to make it easier for them to fly off safely if they came to more when i put them down they moved themselves quickly once, flipping themselves over, and i placed them down feet toward the ground, mostly only their camouflaged back exposed rather than their bright white breast camouflaged back all mostly exposed
