Baby Dove
This morning, as I was trying to hook up enough hoses to water trees on the edge of the property, I noticed a baby dove on the ground. A perfectly healthy baby dove that had fallen from it's nest. The mother dove was frantic flying around, but I could only see one nest and it looked a bit of a mess as if the parents were new to building it and didn't really do a very good job. I decided it wouldn't be worth trying to put the baby back in it's nest and instead thought I would try to find someone to take it and hand raise it. I thought about how I had found a dove once before and my parents put it in the pigeon house they had. One of the older birds actually raised the baby dove as their own. So I decided to try the feed store to see if they might know of someone who would be interested in taking it.
The owner of the feed store suggested I try to hand raise it myself. I said I'd been there and done that, without success, once before, and that I have too many cats around to want to even take a chance at it. In fact, just after I picked the little thing up off the ground, Lilly walked up to tell me hello and a long haired black cat, that has adopted our property as his or her own, was only a few feet away. That little bird was lucky I found it when I did.
The feed store owner made a few phone calls for me and found a breeder who didn't hesitate when asked if she was interested in taking the bird. Very Cool!!!!
That made my day. Holding that little life, all nestled in my hand while it stared up at me, was so neat. I'm sure the poor mamma bird is going nuts wondering what happened to the baby bird, but I think it will be better off with the breeder.
So that was my exciting event for the day. I watered probably 100 trees of every different shape and size and saved a baby bird. Not bad for a days work.
Hope everyone has a fabulous day.
Pray for rain.
Hugs
Shannon
The owner of the feed store suggested I try to hand raise it myself. I said I'd been there and done that, without success, once before, and that I have too many cats around to want to even take a chance at it. In fact, just after I picked the little thing up off the ground, Lilly walked up to tell me hello and a long haired black cat, that has adopted our property as his or her own, was only a few feet away. That little bird was lucky I found it when I did.
The feed store owner made a few phone calls for me and found a breeder who didn't hesitate when asked if she was interested in taking the bird. Very Cool!!!!
That made my day. Holding that little life, all nestled in my hand while it stared up at me, was so neat. I'm sure the poor mamma bird is going nuts wondering what happened to the baby bird, but I think it will be better off with the breeder.
So that was my exciting event for the day. I watered probably 100 trees of every different shape and size and saved a baby bird. Not bad for a days work.
Hope everyone has a fabulous day.
Pray for rain.
Hugs
Shannon
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