fly away free

My Walter flew away today. This is him before he flew
At 11.45 he was there at 12.00 hrs he was gone. I tried to let him (or may be her )out yesterday but he wouldnt leave. I left the door open. The neighbours if they saw me will think me insane when I am trying to fly thru the door to show Walter how to get out of the aviary. I flapped my wings and ran thru............he just preened his feathers........as he likes to!
Well I do not know what made him finally go but he has. He needed to but I have cried all day. I should as a friend said be celebrating but I have been mourning. Walter is gone. But Walter ( who I truly believe is actually female but still will always be Walter) is free. Free to fly. I realised at about 2pm there was a pigeon doing circles over the two rows of houses- ours and those behind us. I do not know if that was Walter but certainly I have not seen a pigeon do it before. M says its what homing pigeons do. He roosted 2 doors away on a tree



I am 99% certain it is he. I have now joined a twitchers site( bird watchers) and intend to buy a better camera just to find out if he is still out there- a new hobby for a new year then. I need to be able to see his ring round his left leg - its green. He is free tho. free like any human on this planet can never be.Free like my dogs cannot be, like my cockateil Ben can never be.truely truely free just to be............ Truly free. I can never be truly free. No number, no national security, no birth cert, nothing. As I understand it the only country like that right now is somalia and very few folk would chose to move there but true freedom is something everyone over the whole planet lacks. Even dogs and cats are chipped. We all are known by numbers. " If you dont wannna be a number dont give them your name" - Crass about 1978. Well we are none of us free and Walter for better or worse is! Yeah!

Only wild animals are free.
At 3.30pm put my chickens to bed. I went to check just on the ofchance he had come home to roost- well no he hadnt but another pigeon was in his aviary. I left quickly thinking it would soon leave. Half an hour or so later I went back and it was still there and couldnt find its way out. Eventually by putting food in the doorway I got it to leave but it crashed and couldnt fly. I caught hIm easly and took him up the garden and showed to M who was not amused. Anyway I checked his ( I am sure twas a he) feet and both gripped me. His wings seemed to work but I think one is slightly damaged but will get better- anyway eventually having checked him out all over put on floor and waited. He took lots of steps and flew away. Now tho will I turn into pigeon woman of Kilsby? A bit like a bag woman but with pigeons? Well we will have to see. Walter was on the tree 2 doors away. Walter is free...........