A woman nursed a fledgling bird back to health after it was abandoned by its own kind - by letting it nest in her hair.
Hannah Bourne-Taylor moved from London to Ghana with her husband, Robin, who had started a new job in the captiral of the Afriacn country, Accra.
One day she found a tiny bronze-winged mannikin finch that was barely a month old, on the ground, abandoned by his flock - and she stepped in to help.
It was barely as big as her finger and she placed it in a cardboard box to replicate a nest, but soon the bird moved into her hair and the pair developed an incredible bond.
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Speaking to the Guardian, Hannah said: "His eyes were tightly shut and he was shuddering, too young to survive alone. He was the size of my little finger, with feathers the colour of Rich Tea biscuits, inky eyes and a small bill like a pencil lead."
Hannah, who couldn't work at the time due to visa issues, said she put the bird in a cardboard box with tea towels to mimick a nest and researched how to care of him.
She spoke to an expert who said it would take 12 weeks to prepare the fledgling for the wild.
Over the next 84 days, the bird lived on Hannah and considered her to be his mother, with the duo becoming "inseparable".
She explained: "He would fly alongside me, or cling to me as I went from room to room in the house, while we walked the grasslands or when I drove.
"He’d rest in my hand. As he learned to fly, he’d make short flights from my hand to my shoulder, to my head, then abseil down my waist-length hair to rest again.
"Our bond was so strong that it became immeasurable – we both needed each other. In return for putting his life back on course, he was replotting mine by giving me purpose and new perspective."
As his flock returned to the grasslands, Hannah would bring the finch so he could observe and interact with them.
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Before Hannah flew back to the UK for Christmas in 2018, nearly three months after she had first found the bird, she decided that it would be best to let him fly away with his flock while she was gone.
Robin took him out to the flock three times and on the fourth day, the little bird flew away.
Hannah said that she became so attached to her little winged friend that she still cries when she thinks of him.
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