Tits...

No, not that kind! ... the blue kind that sit in the road!

I was coming off a long ride today and suddenly realised I was bearing down on a little Blue Tit sitting on the tarmac! OMG I hardly saw it in time, I missed it with my front tyre by about 1cm!!! I'm not exaggerating, it was sooo close and then I held my breath and cringed as my back tyre must have passed it in a hair's width.

I slammed my anchors on, jumped off my bike and chucked it on the verge, ran back up the road PRAYING that a car wasn't gonna come and squish it (it was sitting just in the right place for a tyre to go straight over it). I thought it would try and flutter away, it was little fledgling, obviously just out of the nest, but it just sat there and let me pick him up! It was so cute, and really delicate, so I walked into the bushes on the verge and he fluttered out of my hand onto a tree branch. Then I stroked him for a bit and he fluttered off deeper into the verge. Awww

I was kicking myself that I was unable to take a photo of it. If I had gone to get my phone he would have fluttered off anyway, but now I wish I'd carried him back to my bike, got my phone and took a photo before I let him go.

Wow.. you don't get that in the gym. God I love my bike!