Two little birds...help!

Pink. · 22 June 2005 at 3:51PM

First of all appologies as this is a duplicate post (already posted on anything else), but I need some urgent advice and thought that the old stylers might help...........

DS2 has just wandered in with two baby thrushes in a fishing net :rolleyes: . Apparently he found them hopping up and down the driveway.

They can't quite fly (little hops then little flutters), so I am reluctant to put them back outside as there are lots of cats around.

What the heck do I do now? Does anyone know a way to keep them safe/feed them until they can fly (I reckon that will only take a couple of days)?

All help very much appreciated.

Pink

Loadsabob · 22 June 2005 at 3:58PM

You should leave them where you find them, according to the Springwatch team. If you can get them out of harms way of cats, that's great, but apparently their parents will always be nearby, feeding them, watching them, and they just kept stressing, Bill Odie et al, that you have to leave them where you find them - they're fledging, and they will learn to fly...

Hard to do...and worse if you find one killed a few days later, but it's nature, and their parents WILL try and protect them, so they say...

heatherw_01 · 22 June 2005 at 3:59PM

put them back where you found them

Rage_in_Eden · 22 June 2005 at 4:12PM

put them back and keep shoo-ing cats away. if they go missing for any length of time mum and dad assume the worst and when they turn up nobody bothers..... can you put them in a tree or a thick bush/hedge? The latter would be better as mum and dad can locate them by "tweet".

we had a similar experience the other day when OH rang me up at work (

- like i could do anything d'oh!) to tell me we had a baby blackbird sitting on the curtain rail next to our (amused) budgie. It had apparently fallen down the chimney ....... OH finally managed to get it and put it outside in the back garden where dad was going mental (or considering he's "psycho blackbird" more mental than usual :rotfl: !)

Queenie · 22 June 2005 at 7:10PM

Awwww!!! How sweet of your son to "rescue" them! (He has a big heart!)

But, I do agree with the above advice, they must be put back asap.

Feed your son a treat though for being such a kind hearted soul :T

Pink. · 22 June 2005 at 10:32PM

We put the birds back in a small tree as Rage in Eden suggested, and ds2 spent much of the afternoon waving tea-towels (a tip from Edinburghlass) at any neighbourhood cats. Just checked and no sign of the birds now.....so hopefully they will be safely tucked up in their nest with mum.

Thank you all for your help. :T

Pink

Murtle · 22 June 2005 at 11:43PM

what a happy ending for them

thanks for coming back and sharing with us!!

Loadsabob · 23 June 2005 at 8:52AM

Excellent news, Pink-winged, gives me faith in nature to sort itself out! Birds are fab!

Rage_in_Eden · 23 June 2005 at 8:56AM

That's good news - sounds like Mum and Dad have collected them okay. :j

Loadsabob - birds aren't just fab they are the chosen ones!!!!! You can tell I'm budgie (and most birds) mad! That's why I go into my local petshop every day expect Sunday and Bank Holidays to talk to any budgies they have in there. Sadly a couple have died over the last couple of days

I keep trying to get OH to build me an aviary or act as a budgie rescue person with me but for some strange reason he says one bird pooping is enough! heathen..........

Queenie · 23 June 2005 at 10:18AM

Rage - I've got a fledgling blackbird in my garden with a broken wing

(It hangs all limp at his side and he can't fly

)

I've been feeding him regularly and now he comes really close to the door and waits for food. I feel really sad that his wing won't heal but he's a survivor, that's for sure!!

Lillibet_2 · 23 June 2005 at 10:40AM

Sorry to burst everyones bubble but........If you find apparently abandoned chicks & need to move them for their own safety pelase do not handle them directly as this usually leads the parents to rejecting them beacuse they have been "contaminated", they may remove them back to the nest but then use them to feed other youngsters or use as "dummys" to teach flight techniques:eek: Please use nets/newspaper etc to move them.

If you have handled them it is unlikely (although not impossible) that they will survive under their parents care, or the parents may just not collect them. Please trust me on this, hubby is an ecologist & countryside ranger by profession & avid ornathologist who writes professionally for wildlife journals & advises on certain...ahem springwatch....TV programmes so does know what he is talking about here.

Thanks

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