Years After She Saved a Magpie it Returns the Favor Saving Her Life After She Fell from Window

Years After She Saved a Magpie it Returns the Favor Saving Her Life After She Fell from Window

Years After She Saved a Magpie it Returns the Favor Saving Her Life After She Fell from Window Jellybean the magpie – Courtesy of Sandie Gillard When Sandie Gillard fell from a two-story window, the impact knocked the senior citizen unconscious, a state that may have become permanent if not for the intervention of a very small, very unlikely hero. Lightly tapping on her head, a bird named Jellybean roused its former caregiver enough that she could call her husband, who arrived in time to telephone emergency services and save her life. The story makes it clear why the English culture honors magpies. The fall happened in 2020 in the town of Esperance, in Western Australia’s remote southeastern corner where Gillard, then 68 years old, had cared for sick, wounded, or abandoned animals all her life. 3 years before her accident, a miniscule magpie was brought to her home by someone who found it on the ground unable to fly after it had fallen out of a tree. Already possessing a rich experience in n…