A baby black bird is on the mend after it was dropped on a pavement by a magpie in Tyldsley and a worried couple gave it some life saving tweetment.
Anne Thompson, an electrical fitter, was walking in Tyldsley when she says a magpie flew out in front of her, was startled and dropped the little chick, which it had in its beak, on the pavement in front of her.
Worried Anne, noting the tiny little songbird had hardly any feathers and what looked an injured head, picked him up from the pavement and held him for half a mile as she walked home to her address, where she lives with husband Donald, who works in renewable energy.
