The trouble with cats

Martin rescued this baby bird (a Great tit) from Leia's jaws this afternoon.  We don't know where it came from but the parents were not far away 'shouting' at us all the time.

After shooing the cats and the dog inside we left the baby on the grass trying to figure out what we could do to help.  The parents were close by but seemed reluctant to come out into the open so I picked the baby up to move it under a shrub and was immediately dive bombed by the feisty angry parents!

We left them to it, retired to the house with the pets, and half an hour later it was gone.   We've everything crossed that the baby survives the night.