True Love

Received this from my Canadian friend, Dean. Thought it was so very sweet and so very touching that I just had to share it with my friends!

This series of photos tells the suffering of bird shocked by his mate's fatal injury. His mate is injured and her condition is fatal.

He brought her food and looked after her with love.

Then when she lay still, he tried to move her.

Realizing that she would never come back to him, he cried in anguish.

He stood beside her, calling out in grief.

Finally aware that she would never return, he just stood beside her body for a long, time.

The photographer sold these pictures for a nominal fee to a leading French newspaper. The newspaper was completely sold out that day.Thousands of people across Europe and the US mourned for the little bird