My Kids to the Rescue

The kids found a baby bird down on the ground a few weeks ago.  Our house came alive with dramatic efforts and lots of hustling and bustling.   Nate came running in saying, “Mom, can we keep it?  It’s my dream to save an animal and then have it for a pet!”  So cute.  I called our State Wildlife Division and googled how to care for a baby bird - they told us what to do.  At first the kids couldn’t find the nest and we thought the baby had been abandoned.  The wildlife division woman told me that if we could find the nest the Mom would still take care of it. 

 

In the meantime, the kids set up a nest in a shoebox and put a lamp over it for warmth.  We put a wet paper towel over it to help it re-hydrate.  Nate found some worms for it and it finally perked up a bit, it had been pretty lifeless.  We have a giant birdcage in the attic that used to by my brother’s parrot’s.  The kids begged me to bring it down so we could keep the bird.  I explained to them that we really needed to find the mother, that that was it’s best chance of surviving.  Anna climbed the tree above where they found it and found it!  There was another baby in it and they gently passed the baby bird up the tree where Anna carefully placed it back in it’s nest.  It was very exciting!  The kids were sad not to have been able to keep it, but they were so happy to have saved it!  It made me happy too from one mama to another, we gotta look out for each others’ babies.   It was so neat to have my kids all focused together on an important cause.