These pix were taken as my flash was dying but I couldn't take the time to change anything, so some exposures are not the best, especially some with fill.
I found her in a bucket of water I leave at the end of the garden and scooped her up to see if she would recover with a little help.
She was exhausted from the effort to get out of the water and her temperature would have been below what is required for optimal operation of the system, but that’s a part of the effort she makes to survive, it also keeps her ‘warm’ in the cold water – while she dies from exhaustion.
I put her to a flower big enough to hold her while I gave her a little honey for energy. She then, after a sup of the honey, spent the next hour cleaning it off her. The honey had mixed with the water and she was covered in it, must have been sticky, I sprayed her with a mist of water a few times that seemed to help.
For a while she was gripping my skin so she could shake her body of the wet, a gentle grip.
Towards the end I was watching closely as she seemed to be preparing to take off and a car came in the driveway, I looked up and she flew away and I didn't see. Can't have everything.
