may 14!? may 14!? my last post was that long ago? sad day. i have been using my online time on myspace. I apologize, blogger world. :)
So my latest adventure...
my dad and i were eating lunch on the veranda yesterday when we heard a scrambling above us on the plastic roof. it appeared to be a baby bird trying to get under the wooden part of the roof to get away from the baking heat. it couldn't fly but had almost all of its feathers and was decently big. i obviously couldnt reach it but i read my book on the veranda and kept my eye on him. after a while i went inside but kept checking to see if he had moved. in the late afternoon i came out and i couldn't see him anymore, "oh good," i thought, "he's moved up higher on the roof. maybe his parents will rescue him." I went online to see what to do for a baby bird and the official site i found said that the human scent thing is a myth and parents birds will accept a baby if it has been handled by humans. you are supposed to put the birdy in a box or fake nest and put him as close the the nest as possible. anyway, i went back outside and saw my cat playing with something on the ground. yes, it was the baby birdy. he had fallen of the roof. i chased my kitty away and then picked up the bird. oh, he was so tiny and cute! his wings and neck weren't broken but he ws definitely in shock. i held him for a while while i made him a little nest in a box and then i climbed out my bedroom window onto the roof (thats where the nest is) and sat down under the nest. when he smelled the bird poop, he opened his eyes and fluttered his wings a little but didn't do it again. I petted him and then put him in the box nest right under the nest. This morning he was dead. I guess that's the way nature must go. poor baby bird. i'm sad he had to die. :(
