Yesterday I had a call from a person seeking help about a bird that had been spooked and left her nest. The person quoted the Internet as stating, “If a bird does not return in a half hour, the bird has abandoned her nest.” I say this a lot on the phone, in person, and […]
Comic and his Bard Owl brother have grown a lot! Just like little kids, they are into everything. Although I received these baby owls two weeks apart, they came out of the same nest. A couple days ago they stood up high and looked at each other as if to say, “Who are you?” Then […]
He is so comical. I took in this owl a few weeks ago. He had fallen out of the nest. That often happens when one of nestlings decides to leave because it is ready and another thinks it can do the same…but it is not ready. Once an owl has fallen out of the nest, […]
This time of year I get a lot of calls on baby raccoons. I couldn’t agree more with the callers who tell me, “They’re so cute!” I got a cute one last week which likely got separated from Mom when she was moving her babies. I started the little raccoon on formula right after I […]
Ever since I discovered birds tangled in tarp strings, I am acutely aware of getting rid of frayed tarps with strings flapping in the wind. The strings are deadly to birds. They get caught up in the strings and can’t fly. Sometimes they use the strings for nests, which is deadly to babies. Birds don’t […]