Rawness of Nature
One day as I walked home from seeing
my girls off at school, I saw a baby bird on the sidewalk. It was
chirping like crazy. I looked at it and it just chirped. I didn't
see an adult bird around. I gathered by the fact it couldn't seem to
move that it had fall out of a nest.
When I got home I called the local
animal rescue. Then I checked on the baby bird.
Unfortunately my efforts were to no
avail. The little bird didn't make it.
I'm not sure what kind of bird it was.
It looked like it was pretty young with only a few short feathers.
Nature takes it's course. Things
happen in a way that spells the future or not.
This was not my first encounter with
animal rescue.
Last year I managed to save a young
Robin from our next door neighbor's cat.
I had noticed the cat in our yard was
eyeing something that it wanted to get near. Yet something was
keeping it from doing so. I walked out in the yard to look. In the
garden was a young robin amid-st the green plants. The cat kept
eyeing it. The Robin started to move away by walking through the
plants. It appeared to not be able to fly. It kept struggling. It
appeared the bird was favoring one wing. I put myself between the cat
and the bird. The cat backed off. I grabbed a small pail and we
managed to get the bird in it. I called the animal control and they
said they'd be there soon. I decided that the pail wasn't such a
good idea since the bird would start to spook when I tried to move
the pail. We grabbed a big cardboard box and slipped the bird into
that. Then we took it to the front of the house to wait for the
animal control to get there. We made sure the bird was out of
danger.
The animal control person came. I
showed her the box it was in. She gentling took hold of the bird and
picked it up. The bird seem to look at us and the animal control
person. It's mouth was open, yet it didn't struggle as much.
I asked the animal control person what
would happen next. She told me that there is a wild animal rescue in
the state and a woman who's known as the “Bird Woman”. She
rehabilitates the birds. That if this bird had signs toward
recovering they'd see it through.
She gave me a number to keep.
I called a week later and was told the bird was moved to this woman's place and eventually would be released back out in the wild.
I called a week later and was told the bird was moved to this woman's place and eventually would be released back out in the wild.
This bird was a fledgling and looked
similar to an adult bird yet not there yet.
My husband noticed later that an adult
Robin seem to be hanging around our place. He thought maybe it had
to do with my rescuing the youngster. I don't know for sure, yet
feel good.
Nature can be quite raw, yet also
amazing.
