Bella Lives! (ur, addendum. I told my family she looks like an Egret from far away, my distance vision is bad. This morning, turns out, I was right. It is).

Bella left, kids middle, Buzz right, this morning I finally spotted her, or she let herself be spot

Best news ever, I saw Bella! I really didn’t feel in my bones she was dead. She didn’t come but she moved out of the reeds at a great distance and I called to her, over and over, so we made contact. Buzz took the kids over, after they’d eaten ~ ironically enough, the little island Bella broods on, no one has been back there for ages but am glad I went looking because that’s the new spot (they’re never ever where I left them). I’ll go closer over there tomorrow, too much water in between, but I’m sure it was her. She flashed her wings so they work, is the good news, but she wasn’t strong enough to swim to me is concerning. Please pray she is healed.