Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Little Fella
Originally posted in May 2006:
Yesterday my nephew called me and asked me to come help him. When I got to his house he was out front holding a tiny baby bird in one hand, and was trying to keep the ants off the baby bird's dead sibling, at the same time trying to balance his giant backpack that he was still wearing after getting off the bus.
The baby bird had his mouth wide open and was whistling for some food. We buried his sibling and fed the bird bits of moist cat food poked into his mouth with tweezers.
My nephew watched over Little Fella until we took him to the wildlife hospital in Calabasas. He was so careful with the little tiny pink thing and was sad to let him go. It's so cool when a kid sees a helpless creature as something to take care of rather than something to abuse.
UPDATE: In August 2006, three months after River discovered Little Fella, he was walking through the front door of his house and a finch flew in! How often does a finch just fly into someone's house? The wildlife hospital had told him that Little Fella was a finch --was he coming back to say hi? I think it's quite a coincidence!
Yesterday my nephew called me and asked me to come help him. When I got to his house he was out front holding a tiny baby bird in one hand, and was trying to keep the ants off the baby bird's dead sibling, at the same time trying to balance his giant backpack that he was still wearing after getting off the bus.
The baby bird had his mouth wide open and was whistling for some food. We buried his sibling and fed the bird bits of moist cat food poked into his mouth with tweezers.
My nephew watched over Little Fella until we took him to the wildlife hospital in Calabasas. He was so careful with the little tiny pink thing and was sad to let him go. It's so cool when a kid sees a helpless creature as something to take care of rather than something to abuse.
UPDATE: In August 2006, three months after River discovered Little Fella, he was walking through the front door of his house and a finch flew in! How often does a finch just fly into someone's house? The wildlife hospital had told him that Little Fella was a finch --was he coming back to say hi? I think it's quite a coincidence!
