baby birdie!
i am in the precesence of a little baby bird right now. as bf and i were walking from the car to my apt last night at oh, about midnight, he spotted a little baby bird laying in a parking spot of a neighboring apt complex. and by laying in the parking spot, i mean in the tire tracks where he would sure to be run over, not in the middle of it. he wasn’t moving and i thought he might be dead or dying, but he was still breathing. i was scared that if we took him he would die on us since maybe he was sick, but i couldn’t just leave him. so, we took the pots we were carrying (we just came home from a potluck) upstairs, grabbed a shoe box and some paper towels and went back downstairs. we tried to grad him, but he fluttered underneath a neighboring car, and as we were crouching on the ground in the dark, the car that lives in that parking spot pulled in!!!!! literally a minute later. he would have been squooshed for sure if we had left him. so bf scooped him up, put him in the shoebox, and we took him in. we make a cage from those plastic drawer sets, gave him some quinoa and breadcrumbs from the pantry, and some water. i thought for sure he would not live through the night, but sure enough, this morning he is chirping and eating and actually moving. he has no visible signs of trauma, but he can’t seem to walk properly. he keeps tipping over to the right side and flipping over and falling all over the place. i am not sure what we are going to do with him at this point, but i will keep you updated and take some pictures!
EDIT: apparently, it is illegal to keep wild birds. i am such a rebel.
