The night a bird sat at my window.

Last night at around nine p.m., I was thinking of closing the windows and switching on the computer when I saw a black shape at one of the windows. I went nearer and saw this little bird sitting on the window sill. Excited at what I had found, I called out to my mom and sis and asked them to take a look.

It was strange that the bird was not afraid of us. It just sat there. Sis wanted to catch it but it just moved a little further out. Mom was saying not to catch it as we don't have a cage to keep it. Besides, we didn't know if it was injured or anything and by trying to catch it, it could just fall off and die.

So I just stood there in the darkness, looking at the bird. It looked like a chick with a long tail. Its feathers moved a little in the wind and it blinked its eye. Its body was spotted. It was fun just standing there and talking to it and when I thought it was comfortable enough, I reached out and touched its body. Was actually quite scared because I feared causing it to fall down. Besides, it had a sharp beak. Didn't know if it would peck me if I tried but anyway, Sis had already tried catching it and nothing happened so I just tried too.

It felt like a very soft soft toy but it walked a little further out as I touched its furry body. After a while, I decided to try switching on the light so I could see it properly. It was this white bird with a grayish body. On the gray parts, there were spots. Around the eye was a ring of orange. It also had a long tail. I have no idea what bird that is.

Anyway, I switched off the light after that and went online in the living room. When I turned in for the night, it was still there. I went to sleep.

Woke up in the middle of the night and I looked at the window once more. It had moved to another window. I went back to sleep.

Waking up in the morning, I sat up and looked at where it had sat the previous night. It was gone. Later in the day, Mom said that when she went to my room at around seven a.m., she saw it fly away.

I went to the windows and saw blobs of dried-up bird shit at the two window sills. Took toilet paper and brushed them off. Just realised that the shit could have fallen on someone. Oops.