Chasing butterflies through the garden, I spotted an injured bird lying on the ground.
Scooping it up into my cardigan, I took it inside to show my mum, Kathy.
Aged six, I loved all animals. I’d even bring lizards home from school in my lunch box.
It broke my heart to see the tiny creature in pain.
‘He must have flown into the window,’ Mum said, inspecting its broken wing.
Nursing it back to health, we released the sweet bird back into the wild a