From: john king [mailto:the.lord.pickleby@iafrica.com]
Sent: 07 June 2010 14:36
To: Ria Wills
Subject: baby bird
Hi Ria
Hope you can make a reasonable story out of the facts about the baby bird.
He was found by passersby outside the Lord Pickleby one evening and decided they would put
Him in the flowerpot on the verge. It was cold and rainy and late so I decided he deserved a better
Chance and brought him in – a sorry little sight and quite weak. Found a box and kept him warm
Sharon from High Hopes rushed down with seeds which we ground up with glucose – probably
All the wrong food but thankfully was alive next morning. Thought we was not a seed eater
And fed him many earthworms which he happily gobbled up..
We kept him in his box for a few days then decided he was strong and perky and needed
Some sunshine – covered his box with a grid and put him on a table in the back garden.
We had heard that if he had been handled only for a short time he would be rejected by his mother but to our
Amazement there she was sitting on the box - we opened the top a little and she was back straight away
And fed him all day – we brought him in at night for a few nights and then put the opened box in the
Shrubs. From then on for a few days she moved him further and further into the main garden and we
eventually lost sight of him. Just hope all went well and he survived his ordeal.
Managed to identify the mom on the box as an Olive Thrush
Sending you the three pics I showed you just hope someone will derive as much pleasure as we did
in seeing how cute he was
Thanks for your interest
Regards Joan..
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