One Spring morning 2 years ago last Spring, I was walking around in the yard picking up limbs after a storm we had the night before when I came across this baby bird.
It was a newly hatched baby totally bare and eyes closed. I picked it up and thought it was dead since it was so cold, and no movement. I thought... oh poor baby, and started to take it, and throw this dead bird in the river, when I felt just a very slight movement.... that was all I needed to know there was some life left in this baby, so I quickly got him inside, and with a heat lamp plus a heating pad on him, I went back to my work.....
When I came back to check on how he was doing he managed to raise his little head, and open his BIG mouth....When he did that I was pretty sure I was going to save him.
I fed him, and after that every 15 to 20 minutes I was stuffing food down this baby bird that had one very big appetite.
I never got any pictures of him when I first found him. These pictures are after he was already flying.
He would eat 2 doz. dew worms a day when he was a fledgling... Dew worms are worms large...Up to a good 8" long for some..
I had to buy dew worms for him since it was a very dry spring, and they were not out in the yard like they are most Springs.
It cost me 2 dollars a day to feed this little pig.
When I went away to shop or what ever, I had to take him along to make sure he was fed at the right times to keep him healthy.
I did that until he started to fly, then he had to wait until I got home, and many times he would meet me at my car when I drove in, begging me for food.
Well this went on all summer. Every time he was hungry he would fly down, and start begging for me to feed him. As he became more independent he found his own food but, still I could call him and he would fly down and land on my head or shoulder.
We really enjoyed having him around...then it turned cold and he left for the winter. Don't know if he ever came back or survived after that.
Dixie
