I had to write this story down before it evaporates out of mind.

	In the winter I feed birds, mostly chicadees, a daily ration of black sunflower seeds.
I'd chat with the gang, maybe a couple of dozen, and dole out the seeds.
Others came and went, cardinals, jays, etc. But the chicadees were constant.
Spring came, snow gone, seeds everywhere on dry stalks, I put feeder away until autumn.
I had green lawn below my west facing window. Walking by one afternoon I saw a dead chicadee 
on the grass, must have flown into the window. Picked it up, still warm, opened his eyes and wriggled.

	I said,"Good thing I picked you up, here come the cats." 
He didn't want any of that. He wanted OUT! I had an idea. I took him in, holding in one hand,
found a brown paper bag, and bagged my bird.

	I remember my next-door neighbor saying how he liked to capture and keep birds.
Usually one or two birds around over at Mike's. I called him up and walked next door.
Mike met me at the door and said he had a good cage upstairs. The chicadee had to wait, in the bag
 another five minutes. The transfer went smoothly, and Chic was moved in. 

	It didn't take him long to crack open sunflower seeds in his new home.
He generally had a lot to say, not all of it nice. He flitted about in the cage constantly.
Mike said he had to adjust. I got regular reports. Mike said he was still wild.

	After six or seven weeks Mike said he was not adjusting. He was still wild,
eating constantly, and getting fat. Mike took him out on the stoop, opened the cage door and sat back
to watch. He hopped out, looked dazzled for part of a second, and jumped up into a handy beech tree.
He called, "Dee, dee, dee dee." tried another branch, "Deedeeedeedee."
In less than five minutes there were two dozen chicadees around that beech tree.
Everybody talking at once, getting caught up on things I'd guess. Chic had seen the Kentucky Derby
 on TV. As dusk deepened they drifted away, wonder if Chic will be back with the gang at the feeder
 next winter. I pray his primitive reptilian brain can learn, learn to avoid flying into windows,