All Creatures. . .Scene 2

It’s been a busy day on the bird rescue front. Early this afternoon, one of the babies decided to pop out of the nest while I had the dogs out in the yard. As soon as I saw it hopping around, I went into overdrive trying to scoop it up while praying my dogs wouldn’t look my way.

I was able to catch it, and we got all the dogs back in the house. I looked in the nest then to see if anyone else had decided it was time to fly. A second one had as well and was sitting under the bush looking petrified. The smallest bird was still in the nest.

So. We observed most of the afternoon while Mama and Daddy flew into the yard to feed the wandering babies and urge them to fly. When the third one decided it was time to leap from the nest, the parents were full-time busy.

Several hours later, the babies still weren’t flying though. Instead, they were huddled up together against the fence, making no effort to learn to fly.

Back to Scene 2. Go to the barn. Get a flake of hay. Put it in a plastic tub. Get babies. Put them in tub. Put tub on table next to original nest. Hope Mama and Daddy will continue feeding them there until they are strong enough to try flying again.

The babies chirp, chirp, chirp. Mama hears them and flies over with food to the new plastic tub/hay nest.

Whew.

We’ll try this flying thing again tomorrow.

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