Rescue
While walking through Yoyogi-Uehara, Tomoe almost stepped on this ailing sparrow. Despite having no apparent broken bones, the sparrow didn't seem to be able to fly or walk. Being the good samaritans that we are, we scooped him up and took him to Tomoe's apartment to nurse him back to health. In return for our kindness, he agreed to become a captive subject for the latest in my wildlife photo series.
He quickly regained (apparent) health after we fed him a worm that was crawling around Tomoe's apartment. After about an hour of exploring his new surroundings, he flew out the open window. Despite his brave show of strength in flying away into the sunset, these photos show a very sickly little sparrow who will surely die soon.
We could have kept him and tried to save him, but in the end we decided the problem was just old age, so opened the windows and let him die in peace. Besides, my camera batteries needed re-charging.