Birdies Birdies Everywhere

This weekend I noticed a sparrow outside sitting around chirping really loudly. He wasn't afraid of me much and I could get really close to him. I though he might be injured or really young. He was there Thursday and again on Friday. So by Friday night he was still hopping around on the ground and couldn't really fly. So I picked him up and put him in a box and called The Place for Wild Birds. It's a wonderful place locally and the only one local to me that takes in wild birds that have been hurt or lost their parents and rehabilitates them and then releases them back into the wild. It's a really great organization and relies on donations to continue their work. So if you are able please donate to this wonderful organization.

We brought the sparrow to them on Saturday and the woman who runs it checked him out. He's not hurt but is a juvenile. We found a dead sparrow on Friday that had been killed by a cat and we think that might have been one of it's parents. I had watched this sparrow and there didn't appear to be another parent feeding it. So that's why we brought it to the place for wild birds. Once he is old enough he will be released into the wild.

I also noticed yesterday two other sparrows chirping away like they were looking for food but they are better able to fly than the one we caught....but again I was able to get very close to them and they also appeared to be juveniles. So I'm keeping an eye on them to make sure they are being fed by their parents and don't get into any trouble.