She’s Laughing

This afternoon about an hour after I got home, son came in & said that a neighbor boy had found a torn up bird’s nest that had 3 little baby birds in it. Youngest daughter went to see about it & came home with a tiny little sparrow. It didn’t even have feathers yet. It was alive, squeaking, lifting it’s little head searching for food, trying to wobble around on it’s weak, spindly little legs.

I googled “how to care for baby birds,” then “abandoned baby birds” & found a phone number for a lady in Tulsa who works at a wildlife preservation & helps rescue wild animals. I called her & after advising me to keep the bird warm, to try to get all three of them & not to feed them (b/c they could easily aspirate), she gave me the number of a wildlife preservation about 45 minutes away from here in Noble, Oklahoma called WildCare Foundation. I called and was told that they could take the baby birds if I could get there before they closed at 7pm.

We got the other 2 baby birds (the boy was relieved, I think, to have a place for them to go) and off we went.

When we arrived, we took the little birds in, they were going to be put in an incubator & then re-hydrated. They’ll begin feeding them after making sure that all is well with their health & that they can handle digesting food. After the birds are bigger & able to survive, they will be released.

We saw big owls, sparrows, crows, squirrels, and an opossum that were recovering in cages. It’s a place totally run on donations. I enjoyed visiting and would consider volunteering for a few hours sometime.

The kids were happy to have helped save the little birds.

Here’s a pic of them in the kleenex filled box we used for transport.