 full bellied by McBeth. |
With no parents in sight anywhere and feeling some urgency about getting care for this one, I scooped it up and we created a little homemade nest out of paper towels and a tiny wicker basket. I picked up a small canister of baby bird food on the way home (a formula mix similar in consistency to human infants' mix-with-water stuff) and hand-fed it every half hour or so until I could locate a wildlife center (at our county Humane Society) who would know far better than I how to best care for the orphan. Little bird is there now, as is the baby bird food which they can use to feed it and others; no doubt they'll be far neater with the hand-feeding than was I.
I'm starting to see this mourning dove/bird pattern emerging in my daily life. I wonder what that's about.
3 comments:
Oh how I wish I had a bird's sight, cause then I wouldn't think that that was one UGLY bird you rescued. But that's just me...P
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. I saw something completely different from you, Busman! McB, I'm glad YOU were there to be the Rescuer!
teehee ...
@Busman: Oh P., if you'd seen some of the bird babies that neighborhood kids have brought to me over the years ('can you help it? i think its wing is broken or something'...) you'd probably think this one was a downright beauty contestant. But yeah, I getcha - they're a wee bit on the ungainly side when they first start out, aren't they?
Frankly, I think humans start out similarly but with the large eyeball-to-head-size ratio that our babies come with, Nature has clearly developed a protection into the system so we don't kill the young ones. Not that we're not tempted to sometimes, of course, but they're just so darned cute. ;-)
@DrStarbuck: me too. I saved some of that baby bird infant food formula stuff for the 'just in case'es. Like just in case I turn my place into a bird sanctuary. Yanno, like that. *g*
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