"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg)
06/24/2020 at 11:25 • Filed to: None
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"Snuze: Needs another Swede" (markg)
06/24/2020 at 11:25 • Filed to: None | 2
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I checked on him earlier this morning when I walked Ozzy and he was still in the nest.
I did a little reading last night, apparently baby birds are called “nestlings” when they are first born and they have those floofy baby bird feathers. As those shed and actual flight feathers grow in, they are called “fledgelings”. At that stage they are close to flying.
When I found Randall he had some very nice flight feathers on his wings, but his back was naked. My guess is thst he is well on his way to flight status and just got a little overambitious.
facw
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
06/24/2020 at 11:32 |
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Hopefully mom and dad can track him (or her) down to keep feeding (or if not, he has enough reserves to finish growing those flight feathers).
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> facw
06/24/2020 at 11:40 |
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The vet had told me that if I put him back in a tree in the area that I found him, mom and dad will recognize his cries and come back and start feeding him. When I went to put him back there was a robin going ballistic in the tree, and I looked closely and saw a nest, so I’m pretty sure I got the right spot. Hopefully mom and dad robin are cool with me taking care of their kid for a bit.
Svend
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
06/24/2020 at 13:14 |
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Robins are very territorial and if the baby isn’t theirs t hey will try and kill it.
We have robins in our warehouse often and they really go at it over territory.
They really are quite evil and not sweet and angelic as they appear.
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Svend
06/24/2020 at 14:41 |
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Good to know. We have tons of them in the neighborhood, but I put this one back in the tree that he was more-or-less directly under when I found him. Hopefully his family has claim over the whole tree.
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Svend
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
06/24/2020 at 17:02 |
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Ouch. Sometimes we’ll have maybe half a dozen or so around the place and they’ll make such a racket to assert their presence or fly at each other to knock the other out the air.
I can't imagine having tons of them, the noise.