Joel found a baby humming bird that had fallen from it's nest. Turned out it only had one leg. We named it Nemo - because of the gimpy leg, so cute. Anyway, Joel kept putting it back up in it's tree and it's momma kept feeding it. But he kept finding on the ground. My mom showed the kids how to feed him and help make a safe place for him. To save it from the cats, Joel made a little container/house up in the tree and placed it there. Two days later it was gone. Then, after two days, there he was again!
We brought him in and again fed him. The kids loved feeding him because you could see his long tongue go all the way up into the dropper to get the sugar water. Then all of a sudden he started to fly! It sounded like a teeny tiny helicopter taking off. He could fly- but not land. He would just drop.
We called the Ogden nature Center and told them about little "Nemo". They told us to get him to Tracy Aviary asap and they would send a volunteer from Ogden to pick him up (of course we are assuming it is a "he"- the birdie wasn't wearing a dress- so....).
The little kids and I put him in tupperware and ran to the car and back out of the driveway WAY too FAST!!!
The girls said that he "tweeped" the whole way there. Until that ride I had never heard a humming bird make a noise, but he didn't like the car.
He made it the in time and he will live.
My gate died, unfortunately, for the cause. Good thing there wasn't a kid behind me!
Three days later we came home and found a baby robin in our driveway. Alec caught him hand-fed him a juicy worm from our new sod and made him a birdie "house" up in the tree.
No fences were harmed in the saving of THIS baby bird.
Moral to this story- we love the Ogden nature Center. Please always support wonderful places like these!
4 comments:
It's so tiny! What a cool experience...for you guys, not the gate. What did they do with him when you got him to the Aviary? Does he write?
We dropped him off and someone from the Ogden Nature Center came and picked him up.
We are hoping to go visit him in Ogden sometime soon!
We need to visit the Ogden nature center too, they were very patient with our 'rescued' birds. Not nearly as noble a story as yours!
We are bird rescuers too....it is such a neat feeling...especially for kids. Teaching them to be gentle with nature goes a long way. :-)
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