by dita » Sun May 28, 2006 4:40 pm
After midnight last sat night I was just shutting my bedroom curtains, our bedroom overlooks the only street in the village. Saw a couple of cats one of which was playing with what I thought was a mouse, turned out it was a bird, yes! at that time of night. I flew (ha ha) downstairs shouting at my husband on the way down to help, ran into the road in my PJ's to rescue the bird and as I did a movement to my right showed this little bird hopping towards the path. Yes! two birds, I could not believe what was going on especially at this time of night, anyway one was fine but the other was badly in trauma because the cat had been throwing it around, if I had not seen this going on these little birds would certainly have died.
We hunted in the shed for our old birdcage, put it and them in the bath overnight and just prayed they would both be alive the next day, which they were and very soon they were calling for their Mum. Luck was going their way because lo and behold the parent was answering. Knowing they would not survive in our care I went and dug a few worms which we fed to them, we then gently put them on top of the shed. Eventually we think they were back with the parents because they came visiting them with food and calling from a nearby tree. Just hope so anyway.