So I drove up in the driveway after a rainstorm to find a bird nest on the ground with 3 baby birds outside the nest squawking. I got a dishrag, picked up the birds, put them back in the nest and tried to put the birds back in the same tree. Unfortunately, the lowest branches were too high to reach. So I had to put it in another tree 20 ft. away.
When I picked up the birds, the frantic mother Robin started crying like crazy. All of a sudden there were like 10 robins in the trees and on the power lines all around going bonkers cawing at me like mad. It was absolutely heart wrenching.
I checked on them today a couple times. The mother is nowhere to be seen. I went and bought some mealworms to feed them in case the mother has abandoned them. I tried feeding them to the baby birds with tweezer's but they are listless and will not eat. I think they have internal damage from the fall.
It has just devastated me emotionally for some reason.
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You have done the best you could for them, and given them a chance which otherwise they wouldn't have had. Maybe they are just too young to survive a trauma like that. Is it possible to take them indoors and try to hand rear them. Or is there some animal welfare association you can take them to . Over here in the UK we have the RSPB and my vet will take in young birds.I won't tell you not to get upset , because I would feel exactly the same in those circumstances. You have a kind heart and clearly care about wildlife 🤗
Would really bother me too! Nature. Animal Kingdom. Just the way of the world
See if you have a wildlife rehabilitation in your area, it is likely the mother has abandoned them since the entire nest fell and was moved. If you didn’t see her go to the nest right away she probably wont👍At least you tried.
Don't feel too bad. I had a nest on my porch up on a column maybe 9' high of 3 baby robins. The mother would sleep on the nest every night - these are hatchlings. Well, my dog got "lucky" one afternoon when the mother flew out of the nest she dipped down a little low as she dropped and flew out of the nest - and my dog killed the mother. I did not know what to do. I got some mealworms to feed them but then I saw the father bird - during the day anyway - was making efforts to feed them, but, at night no one was now nesting on the hatchlings to keep them warm. I thought this would not be an issue since I live in Georgia and it was only getting down to 65 at night. They were fine for a few days and then the father stopped coming. Got a ladder and checked - they were gone. I did not feed them at night to supplement their food as my research on Google showed it can be an extremely tricky thing feeding hatchlings properly and not causing them harm. So in the end I did not even try and they died. Now I wish I had but that could have gone wrong too, you know? I feel very bad about it too but it's just because we are compassionate.
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I did not feed them at night to supplement their food as my research on Google showed it can be an extremely tricky thing feeding hatchlings properly and not causing them harm. So in the end I did not even try and they died. Now I wish I had but that could have gone wrong too, you know? I feel very bad about it too but it's just because we are compassionate.
Another illustration for my colouring book of British Birds.
God- make me a bird so I can fly away
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