Gingerbread Pip & Tweedy Bird
One evening I walked outside to commence my evening feeding routine, as usual I stepped onto the back porch where I keep all my feed in big, blue buckets, grabbed my feeding bucket and was about to scoop some feed out of a barrel when I saw this tiny bird hopping around in the feed. He didn't fly away from me, and didn't seem scared of me, so I scooped him up and brought him inside a minute to inspect him, and make sure he wasn't injured (he wasn't), so I took him back outside and he flew a short distance into the Rose bush, that grew in the raised bed by the back porch. Then I continued to feed everyone, as they were getting very desperate, and were quackin' and screamin' up a storm.
Pip was in gingerbread heaven! We let him scamper around the gingerbread village that Atlanta and the kids made during the holiday season.
Did you make any gingerbread villages during the Christmas season? Have you ever had to rescue a bird?
Blessings -
~ Aspen
Yes, we have saved quite a few birds over the years. One was at a friends house, it was a robin that had somehow fallen into some mud and gotten stuck. We gave it a bath, dried it off and fed it lots and lots of bugs, then we let it go. Another time, I found a tiny, baby humming bird out in our woods. We kept it till it could fly, and then let it go. There were quite a few more but I can't exactly remember the stories about them.
ReplyDelete~Sarah~
Somehow, injured birds find their way to us all of the time! We have had a baby pigeon that we found in a cardboard box, a fledgeling scrub jay, a great blue heron with an broken wing, a blind crow, a mourning dove, a blackbird, and several other pigeons and doves. What kind was the bird you found? He is really cute!
ReplyDeleteSarah - Sounds like you've been quite the bird rescuer! A Humming bird? How precious...did I ever tell you that I Love Humming birds? Well, I do. Sadly, we don't have them in our neck of the woods (um, actually we don't even have woods)!
ReplyDeleteReyna - Maybe they always turn up at your place, 'cause they know you are a softie and can't turn them away! ; ) We are the same way! lol Reyna, I'm not sure what kind of bird it is? I'll ask mom, and get back to ya on it.
Blessings -
~ Aspen
Oh, I love humming birds too. We have quite a lot of them around here. One of our neighbors has a whole bunch of feeders for them, so he has most of them at his house, but we have a feeder too, so a few come here. One time, my little sister Lydia hid next to the feeder and when one came she jumped up and touched it!
ReplyDelete~Sarah~
Wow, that is so cool! I think it would be so much fun to have a bunch of pet Humming birds...too bad it's illegal! : /
ReplyDeleteOh, and by the by, Momma said that little bird was some kind of Sparrow (I should have known that...).
~ Aspen