Baby Bird, Baby Bird!

May 14, 2008, 10:50 am
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(Said in my best Dora voice - anyone with kids who are Dora fans know what I’m talking about!) Well, we found our own baby bird to rescue:

Last night I was in the back yard & saw a Mourning Dove with 2 babies. One was on a branch & flew up to the top of our fence & then over the fence. The other was on a branch and couldn’t fly, so it just fell to the ground. Mama Dove was right above us on the roof of our garage, looking down after it. Allison & I went over to take a look at the fallen baby bird & just watched it for a bit. Mama eventually came down to sit next to it & protect it. Then we saw Papa Dove on the roof, too, just watching. After a while, the two parents flew away & Baby Bird was left there. Again, we waited & watched but the parents weren’t around. Allison & I picked it up (it’s a myth that once humans touch a baby that it’ll be rejected by it’s parents. Plus, this was a fledgling, not a true baby) and we moved it to a more secluded area instead of in the middle of the lawn. We went in for an hour or so & I called a bird rescue place (they didn’t answer). It was still out there, so from the website, I found out what I should do. I made up a little shoe box with warm water in plastic bags & tissue as a nest & put the bird in it in the garage. The lady from the rescue called me back & basically said that the bird should be fine - it’s what mourning doves do - they let the fledglings out of the nest & then tend to it on the ground. So I put it back outside, but left it in the box. By morning, it was still there. And I still haven’t seen the parents back. Just a little bit ago, I picked it up to check it out and then put it in the grass, where it hopped under a bush to stay. So, we’ll see what happens. I hate to let it sit there if it is hurt or the parents abandoned it, but I also don’t want to interfere with nature taking it’s course, even if that course is that it is a meal for the red-tailed hawk that frequents our neighborhood.

Hive update: I’ve been hive free for 3 whole days now! Yippee! I’m so glad to be rid of them & now am sure that they were a reaction to a virus or sickness I had. I went for blood tests last week & am a little worried because the doctor’s office just called to say the doctor wants to see me to discuss my test results. One of the tests I had them run was to test for Lyme Disease. The doctor, of course, didn’t think that was it, but I’ve read online about so many odd things that happen with Lyme’s, I just wanted to be sure. He also ran just a standard blood count & a thyroid test, too, which I don’t think I’ve ever had. For some reason he didn’t run any liver function tests and I had a lipid panel run about a month ago. So, tomorrow I get to see what the labs say. I’m guessing that they’ll show signs of infection - I’m thinking that this was all a cold and I had either a sinus or lung infection. I still have quite a cough, but it’s loose for the most part and that’s a sign that at least things are moving around inside me. Where early on, when the hives were at their worst, the cough was a dry, hacking cough and I couldn’t get any relief.

Digi-scrap update: I’ve decided to become exclusive with SBB and leave Scrapdish. It may seem sudden, but I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed lately, that I just had to let one store go. So now you can find all my products at SBB and a lot of my newest and most popular stuff at ShopJMT. And, if you check this thread, you will find a 40% off coupon for my store at SBB! Finally, I’m going to start giving away some freebies soon, so be sure to check back here at my blog often. I plan to get started with the first freebie by next week, so stay tuned!


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