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Good Karma or Sheer Stupidity?
May. 19th, 2004 06:50 pmWell, I was on my way home from work today and stopped off to pick up my laundry from the laundrette (sweet Merlin how I wish I had washers and dryers in my building!). Sitting very nearly in the path of the door was a baby bird. It appeared to be stuck to the ground. I was afraid perhaps it got trapped on a wad of gum, or broke a wing or something. So one of the ladies in the laundrette helped me scoop it into a paper bag and I ran it over to the local vet. I just couldn't bear seeing the poor thing suffer.
Well, apparently it was a fledgling, and fledglings fall out of their nest all the time. This one was some kind of migratory bird (not your garden variety pidgeon or robin). It had a rather sharp beak, yellow with some blue, and its body was a kind of pretty bluish-grey. The poor little thing was molting and it was so cute--even with the sharp beak.
There are no rescues for wayward birds in NYC, I was told. In CA they nurse and release such birds, but in NYC all they do is kill them. :-( I was advised to either take it home and nurse it, or put it back where I found it! Now, being neither skilled with birds nor free with time (not to mention living with two very active cats), I brought it back to the laundrette and placed it under a tree where there was some dirt and water. Even if the mother doesn't find or feed it, maybe it will have a chance at nabbing a worm itself (provided it can figure that out!). I just hope the mother bird doesn't reject it when she finds it.
Well, apparently it was a fledgling, and fledglings fall out of their nest all the time. This one was some kind of migratory bird (not your garden variety pidgeon or robin). It had a rather sharp beak, yellow with some blue, and its body was a kind of pretty bluish-grey. The poor little thing was molting and it was so cute--even with the sharp beak.
There are no rescues for wayward birds in NYC, I was told. In CA they nurse and release such birds, but in NYC all they do is kill them. :-( I was advised to either take it home and nurse it, or put it back where I found it! Now, being neither skilled with birds nor free with time (not to mention living with two very active cats), I brought it back to the laundrette and placed it under a tree where there was some dirt and water. Even if the mother doesn't find or feed it, maybe it will have a chance at nabbing a worm itself (provided it can figure that out!). I just hope the mother bird doesn't reject it when she finds it.
