A few weeks ago I wrote you about the sandhill crane I have been raising. She’s almost 20” tall now. Her wings are forming. She still loves worms, eating over 100 a day. When she tosses them into her water dish before downing them, sometimes she misses the dish. I move her water dish at […]
Every year during May, June, and July I experience a great deal of worry about how to have the funds to feed the babies I am getting in daily. Ironically, those months are usually my lowest intake of donations, but they are my highest time for need of donations to feed and care for the […]
Today I had five calls from people concerned that they are seeing baby eagles on the ground. My advice, “Just enjoy. Not many people get to see baby eagles.” When baby eagles leave the nest, they find themselves down on the ground and don’t know what to do. Similar to baby birds’ fledgling, young eagles […]
If you have to chase a bird on the ground, maybe you shouldn’t. Fledglings spend three to five days on the ground after leaving the nest. They learn to use their legs before they exercise their wings. When they hit the ground, they look around, “Huh! What am I doing here?” The parents, especially robin […]
One of my biggest rewards with rehabilitating animals is enjoying their antics. I love to watch the young sandhill crane get excited when I give her worms to eat. Yesterday she tossed one into her water dish, just to observe it moving and thrust her beak in the water to retrieve it. Worms are absolutely […]
Despite giving every critter that I receive the best care and feeding I have available, sometimes my efforts do not result in the animal returning to the wild. Part of me has accepted that reality. Every once in a while when I lose one I cannot apply acceptance, and it hurts. That was the case […]
This year has been a crazy newborn season. I have been answering forty or more calls every day. A couple days ago I hit a new high; I responded to sixty-three calls in one day. Needless to say, these calls take an enormous amount of my time and energy. Most of them concern one subject; […]
About a week and a half ago, I received a call that a family had discovered a baby owl under a trampoline when they were mowing lawn. All fuzz, the little guy was the size of tennis ball. He has now grown to be the size of a baseball. The feathers are coming in on […]
I could have taken in twenty baby raccoons today, and that doesn’t include yesterday and the day before that, etc., etc. In one sad situation, mom fell out of the tree and died, leaving five little ones peeking out of the hole where they lived. The ones I have are so cute and doing very […]
We are in the midst of Mother Nature’s baby season, and, let me tell you, it is busy. A couple weeks ago, I picked up six baby Starlings, who the rescuer thought were baby Robins. They do look alike. They had to be fed every half-hour to forty-five minutes, and they loudly let me know […]