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Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:51 am  |
Yikes! I accidentally knock/scared a baby bird out of its nest in one of the trees I was trimming in the backyard. It's one of the babies from the birds that had been dive bombing me all day yesterday. I can't find the nest to put it back, and I couldn't leave it on the ground because it was covered with ants and a cat might get it. My husband told me to put it in the cat carrier and then put it in the tree. I tried, but there are not enough supporting branches to hold it. So I tied a rope around the handle of the carrier and then around a strong branch, tilting it back a bit so the bird won't try to climb out. I really hope its mother and father sees it.  |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:30 am |
Ohhh... From what I understand, once the scent of a human is on a baby bird, they will abandon it. So you were right not to try and put it back in the nest.
Can you try and feed it? Again, the mother will not touch it.
This happened to me once. I brought the bird inside in a shoebox and fed it crushed worms. It died, but I tried. |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:41 am |
Cool havana!
Good to know! |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:43 am |
That is awesome Havana, I heard the same as erg, and had the same experience trying to save a baby bird when I was young! |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:24 pm |
| Very good to know!! I always thought if you touched it, its mother would let it die !!! I hope the little guys ok |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:56 pm |
YES! The mama bird found the carrier and has been going in and out of it checking up on and feeding her baby. I am so happy about this. 
I've taken care of baby birds before, and it is a lot of work, but I was prepared to do it for this one if its mama didn't take over. The very young ones need to eat every hour or two, similar to human babies, so I was exhausted getting up at all hours for a few weeks. But it is rewarding to watch them grow and then to release them once they can fly.
Thank you all for your concern and advice. I'm so happy that its mama didn't abandon it. |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:01 pm |
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YES! The mama bird found the carrier and has been going in and out of it checking up on and feeding her baby. I am so happy about this.
I've taken care of baby birds before, and it is a lot of work, but I was prepared to do it for this one if its mama didn't take over. The very young ones need to eat every hour or two, similar to human babies, so I was exhausted getting up at all hours for a few weeks. But it is rewarding to watch them grow and then to release them once they can fly.
Thank you all for your concern and advice. I'm so happy that its mama didn't abandon it. |
 thats great news!!!!! YEAH and you get to sleep!!! |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:02 pm |
| sandooch wrote: |
YES! The mama bird found the carrier and has been going in and out of it checking up on and feeding her baby. I am so happy about this.
I've taken care of baby birds before, and it is a lot of work, but I was prepared to do it for this one if its mama didn't take over. The very young ones need to eat every hour or two, similar to human babies, so I was exhausted getting up at all hours for a few weeks. But it is rewarding to watch them grow and then to release them once they can fly.
Thank you all for your concern and advice. I'm so happy that its mama didn't abandon it. |
sandooch Momma Bird!
That really warms my heart that this happened and all should be good!  |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:08 pm |
Oh, I wish I knew how to work the video on my new camera so that I could post a video of baby and mama bird here. Darn it! It really is so cute to watch them.  |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:44 pm |
post a pic! We want to see.
I am so happy too! |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:06 pm |
Okie dokie! Give me a minute and I'll post a picture. 
Alrighty, the fist one is a video (my daughter showed me how the video worked on my camera). Unfortunately, you can't see the baby bird because I had to take this from inside my house. And the mom didn't show up either, so maybe she was out looking for food. (just click on the picture and it should play)
I had my daughters cover me in case the mom came back, but here is a picture of the bird in our cat carrier. Isn't it a cutie?
Its mommy put that little orange seed in there.  |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:03 pm |
| OMG thanks for the pictures!! How creative you are! love the orange food!! Will the mom try to move it? |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:57 pm |
I really don't think she will. She's probably thinking, "Where was thing thing while I was taking forever building that darn nest?!?" In fact, I'm pretty sure she's trying to figure out how to get the ones in the nest into the carrier.  |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:34 pm |
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YES! The mama bird found the carrier and has been going in and out of it checking up on and feeding her baby. I am so happy about this.
I've taken care of baby birds before, and it is a lot of work, but I was prepared to do it for this one if its mama didn't take over. The very young ones need to eat every hour or two, similar to human babies, so I was exhausted getting up at all hours for a few weeks. But it is rewarding to watch them grow and then to release them once they can fly.
Thank you all for your concern and advice. I'm so happy that its mama didn't abandon it. |
This is so awesome, and I love how creative you were!!! |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:19 pm |
| sandooch wrote: |
| I really don't think she will. She's probably thinking, "Where was thing thing while I was taking forever building that darn nest?!?" In fact, I'm pretty sure she's trying to figure out how to get the ones in the nest into the carrier. |
That is amazing sandooch! Well done! |
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Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:41 pm |
| Wow, the orange seed from the mama bird is pretty amazing! Thanks for sharing, sandooch. |
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Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:50 am |
So glad it worked out! I know that some animals can react to scent but birds do not have that same sense of smell.
My dad was a veternarian and growing up on a ranch in Texas, we were like a wild animal refuge sometimes so I learned from a very early age.
We had to do this recently with 3 baby birds and we put an empty tupperware dish in a tree with nesting material such as string, grass, etc. and it worked fine.
When in doubt,you can give them a bit of gatorade in a syringe/dropper and it helps keep them hydrated until mommy finds them.
I once raised a tiny baby squirrel with a toy baby bottle (we keep one on hand) filled with goat's milk and diluted gatorade. But you have to keep them warm on a warming pad and wipe their bottoms every four hours to encourage the bathroom habits. A lot of work around the clock, like a newborn,but very rewarding! Peanut grew up to very a very sweet and annoying chewer, haha!
You should be very proud! |
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Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:05 pm |
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So glad it worked out! I know that some animals can react to scent but birds do not have that same sense of smell.
My dad was a veternarian and growing up on a ranch in Texas, we were like a wild animal refuge sometimes so I learned from a very early age.
We had to do this recently with 3 baby birds and we put an empty tupperware dish in a tree with nesting material such as string, grass, etc. and it worked fine.
When in doubt,you can give them a bit of gatorade in a syringe/dropper and it helps keep them hydrated until mommy finds them.
I once raised a tiny baby squirrel with a toy baby bottle (we keep one on hand) filled with goat's milk and diluted gatorade. But you have to keep them warm on a warming pad and wipe their bottoms every four hours to encourage the bathroom habits. A lot of work around the clock, like a newborn,but very rewarding! Peanut grew up to very a very sweet and annoying chewer, haha!
You should be very proud! |
awwww does peanut still come around!!! Too cute |
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Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:30 am |
No, she only lived a few years and passed on but I had a baby one here named Wally that I had been hand-feeding since she was little for over a year and a half now. She started using the neighbors expensive porch cushions as nesting material so he trapped and relocated her. She has a notch in her ear so she is easy to recognize. I was sad but at least she wasn't killed, he knew I would have gone nuts, so to speak and they are unpredictable animals.
So the hubby was playing golf down at the CF golf course in our neighborhood and on the last hole by the clubhouse, there she was! He called her name, she stood up and came toward him. He didn't have any nuts or anything so she just scampered off, bored with him. Made me happy and the hubby said she looked good and was in a good place there. Maybe to him, he likes golf!
I just love making unique connections like that!
Maybe your birds will stay close and you can enjoy them as they get older as well. |
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Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:15 pm |
I had racoons for a while, but I do NOT recommend feeding them! The top cutie told all of his friends, and it went downhill from there....they would climb up the walls of my stucco house to look in my windows if they were hungry, and they tore up my lawn. I ended up having to stop feeding them because it got TOTALLY out of control.
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Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:23 pm |
Those pictures are too cute, Bethany.
I'm afraid I've got some sad news regarding the baby bird. I had to leave around 7:00 pm that evening to go watch my nephew in a play. My husband got home around 7:30 pm, but when I returned home he was asleep. In the morning he told me that the bird was not in the cat carrier and he looked around but could not find it. We looked more in the morning, but it was nowhere to be found. I was hoping against hope that the mother somehow relocated it. But she was not dive bombing up any more.
Later we went grocery shopping and while bringing in the groceries my daughter found a feather in the front yard that matched the coloring of the baby bird with some bloody flesh on the tip (like it had been pulled out by a cat). My heart just sank.
I'm so sad I didn't have a better ending of this story to tell you all.  |
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Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:59 pm |
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| I'm so sad I didn't have a better ending of this story to tell you all. |
I am so sorry, but you did the best you could.
Do you happen to be in the southeast? It looked like a mockingbird, and they are known for divebombing if you get near a nest. |
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Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:25 pm |
| I'm in southern CA. I'm not sure what kind of bird it was, but it was about the size of a Bluejay. I've also been dive bombed by humming birds. They're small, but they are protective gutsy little things. |
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Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:55 am |
That was out of your hands then. You did a wonderful job and the mother had been re-united and that is a best case scenerio.
It is always tough for me when it comes to animals, but also a very strong sense of the reality of it. Having grown up and watching my Dad trying to save animals on a daily basis, but seeing those that could not be, we knew from a very young age about death. Dad was always very practical about it and told us "Sister, you save those you can, pray for those you can't and you be at peace with the trying of it all". And that lesson applies in everyday life as well! |
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