by Krystal Davis
(Bostic, NC)
Our sandbucket birds nest!
by Laura
(Greenwood, Ca)
Nest Jumper
We don't know whether this bird jumped or was pushed from the nest. But by her eager demeanor, it is safe to say, she probably jumped!
I think it's a robin red breast, but I could be totally wrong. We put her in a makeshift nest and have her outside in hopes her folks will come back and feed her.
I have been giving her some moths to eat. She gobbles them up greedily and begs for more. She had 5 of them for breakfast!
by Gail
(Las Vegas, Nevada)
Dove and 2 babies
We have found a Mourning Dove nesting in our tree, we soon discovered she had 2 babies. They seem to be doing fine. We have enjoyed seeing them and Mom.
by Donna Landers
(Bedford, Indiana)
new babies in nest, no momma
The nest has babies in it and we have not seen the mother. We have had roofers working on our house for a week and I'm afraid they scared the mother bird away.
Yesterday when I discovered the nest, there were 3 babies and one egg. Today, the egg had hatched and now there's 4 babies that I can see, maybe more.
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by Jessica Butler
(Spencerville)
Year after year I always end up with baby birds on my porch or fallen out of the trees in my yard.
I have always successfully been able to raise the babies, and set them free when the time is right. Luck may have to do with it, but time and patients over- rule.
My local vet instructed me that you can feed them a mixture of scrambled eggs and wet cat/dog food. It seems to work.
Upon reading this article, I'm surprised to find out you must feed every 10 - 20 min. I feed every 2 hrs.
At the present time I have rescued a morning dove with no feet and surrendered him to a bird sanctuary.
Now I have two baby Robins I saved from some attacking black birds. There name is Ike and Spike.
I tried putting them back in there nest on the ground but Ike was determined to cross the road wobbling and hopping.
I'm now on day two and all is going well. I really like this site for the information it gives, and now I must go feed them.
by Donny
(Gainsville,TX. USA)
Howdy! I'm from north Texas and I have a little bird story for yall!
by possum
(Ozark Foothills, Mo.)
We had been watching the blue birds build the nest for several days. The time came for the egg-laying, we were so excited, this had been the third try for them.
For the prior two had ended in disaster, the first eggs a rat snake had gotten into, the second we don't know what happened the baby's had just vanished.
by Angeleque
(Kamuela, Hawaii)
My cat brought something in to the house last night in her mouth my husband told her to spit it out, so she did.
A baby bird not more than a day old its eyes aren't open yet and it can't even hold it's head up. It was so tiny smaller than my thumb and so cute!
Anyway I held it for a while to keep it warm, made a special box for it and didn't expect it to live through the night, but it was still alive this morning.
I was giving it water with my fingernail it seemed to like it. I didn't know how to care for this bird until I found this site, and I'm so glad I did.
Now I will put it in a container a back into a tree it goes! I feel much better now,I will leave it up to mother nature. (that's not my cats name)
Mahalo from Hawaii
by Carrol Betts
(Chiefland, FL)
Ibis
In September I was at Fort Myers Beach. I spotted a lot of ocean birds, but the Ibis caught my attention, with their blue eyes, friendly blue eyes.
I kept watching this particular Ibis, she wasn't afraid, seemed like she was following me around.
After several minutes I was able to take her picture as she was dipping her head in the water, it looked at though she was looking right at the camera waiting for me to snap the picture.
I was pleased when I printed the picture and saw her blue eyes looking at the camera. Hope ya'll enjoy it.
by Gene
(Lower Alabama)
I have five new cardinals nested in my dish. Videos are taken in 48 minutes clips due to memory stick capacity.
They are five days old today 5/7/09
by Kaylor
(NC)
What a mouth!
A young Carolina Wren couple built on the adjoining parcel, previously identified as "the window box on the right side of our bay window".
They thoughtfully situated it so the opening almost directly faces our window.
The missus laid 4 eggs over four days, and last Monday they started hatching. I can't tell you the thrill this has given us.
We try to be thoughtful neighbors: keeping the evening lights to a minimum, no sudden movements around the window, cautious traffic across the deck...but I confess she knows we're here.
She cranes her neck to look in the window with each food delivery.
I would have to be totally inept not to get amazing shots when all we have to do is raise the window a few inches, aim, and click.
I've attached my favorite. WOW! Doesn't it looks like a bass with feathers!
I wondered if we should help supplement the food supply, not by actually feeding but by laying out an appetizing (!) selection if mom and dad are interested.
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by Cathy Forsyth
(Rohnert Park, CA)
I had just put our newborn baby boy down for a nap, when our seven year old son came running in.
He had found a tiny bird on top of our patio roof and wanted us to take a look. Sure enough, there it was, just a couple of days old with no feathers at all.
After being unable to find out where it may have come from, we decided that we would have to try to take care of it.
Upon showing it to my neighbor, she suggested that we bring the bird down to the local bird rescue in town.
When I placed the call the woman on the phone said that she couldn't possibly take any more birds but that she would come right over and teach me how to take care of mine.
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by Audrey
(Hernando, MS)
Fledgling Robin
One day as I was out in the backyard I saw something run past me really fast. I followed it & saw that it was a baby bird.
It ran through the chain link fence to where I couldn't get to it. Of course since I am an animal lover & didn't know if it had fallen out of the nest I wanted to check & see if it was alright.
So, I ran into the house to get my mom & told her that there was some kind of baby bird in the yard but I didn't know what kind it was.
So we went out front & caught it. It perched on our fingers so we knew that it was a fledgling. I held it while my mom went inside & called some friends of ours that work with a wildlife rehabilitation program.
Our friend asked us if the bird was injured & we said we didn't think it was, so she said to let it go, watch it for a few minutes & see what happened.
We let it go & it hopped around a little. It had been chirping this whole time & it continued to.
We saw two grown robins coming towards it on the ground & thought maybe they were its parents.
Sure enough the baby robin went towards the two grown ones & they went off together.
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