Aug 19 2010
Mother Bird Accepts Baby After Intervention!
Sounds like some big news headline doesn’t it?
Every year I see baby birds that have fallen from their nest and it’s a sad thing. Usually they are found after a hard rain but we haven’t had any rain for a couple of days. I have a robins nest at the back of the house and I watch the activity there everyday. Early this morning I heard the birds and knew there was a problem. It was still dark so I waited until light and went outside. Mother bird was very upset and noisy. I didn’t see anything in the nest and started to carefully check the ground. Surely enough I found 2 of the 3 babies without much trouble. The third one was found alive, huddled in the grass! With gloves and a box I bent to reach for the little bird and it opened it’s mouth for me to feed it. When I got back with the ladder the mother was waiting nearby with food. She worked her little wings off flying back and forth feeding that baby today.
This went on for a few days, each day I would go out and check for the baby, find it on the ground and put it back into the nest. I began to wonder if I should let them be, thinking that maybe this is how the baby learns. It makes good sense that he wouldn’t have as far to fall while he practices his flying if he starts from the ground. Then one day the baby was gone.
Working up the courage
