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I found a wild baby bird and it just died, does anyone know why?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

ok i was in Greely, Colorado the other day and a mother black bird was kicking her baby otu of the nest repeatedly after we put it back in the nest. So i brought it back to my house, Peyton, Colorado and it did fine. That is until about 2 days after ive had it here, it was eating and jumping around and stuff but then today i came in to feed again (eggs scrambled and finley smashed up with water and some baby formula) and it was laying on its side (this morning i noticed it had stopped chirping completley and was only making a weasing noise) i had no idea what to do so i hopped on the internet and tryed to find what i should dom and found nothing. He died about 15 minutes after i had seen him on his side. He was about 2-3 weeks old only had a few feathers and pink still showing, I would like to know why this happened. I beleive it could have been a respitory problem judging by the loss of chirping, but i had a heat lamp over him. *This was a BlackBird by the way* ANY ADVICE NEEDED!

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Why do squirrels not eat at night?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

Just curious, but I put out food and water for the squirrels on my apartment balcony. I live on the 3rd floor and they jump over from a hanging tree branch and munch away from sun up to sun down, but I never see one stop by when it’s dark.

Where do they go at night? and they don’t eat at night?

The reason I’m confused is because I know that other similar animals like apossums, racoons, skunks and such are always seen more after dark than in the daytime, so I figure that is when they come out in search of food.

So, are my squirrels just so well fed that they don’t have to bother?? LOL

Also, am I hurting the squirrels by feeding them? They aren’t tame and they would never come up to me, but I do sit in my living room and watch them throughout the day stop by and have their fill of peanuts, corn, sunflower seeds, and bird seeds…..and water too. It’s so cute to see them drinking out of the water dish….lol.

Thanks for any info you have.
Robin

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Help! Baby Bird Just Fell From His Nest!?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

Well a baby bird fell from his nest and my mom freaked out and took it inside, she didnt want it to die. The mother is nowhere in site and the nest is too high for us to put the bird back in. We are trying to keep this bird alive, does anybody know what we should do or feed it? Is there any place we can take the bird to? Or should we just leave it out there? Please help.
The bird has all its feathers, probley the size of a canary. He is currently fluffed up and is closing his eyes, you hear a ticking noise from him every time he takes a breatj.
I mistyped, I ment to put down, “Breath”
I have now put the bird back on the ground, next to the tree where his nest is. From what I read, you people say he will stay on the ground for about 3 days untill its wings get stronge. Hopfully, the mother will still care for it.

Thank you for all your help!

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How do you deter pigeons without deterring other birds?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

I love all the birds I feed but recently some pigeons decided they like to eat off my balcony too. I want to keep the feeders but don’t want the pigeons.

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KAMIKAZE SQUIRREL

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin| 25 Comments

A marauding squirrel risks everything to raid the backyard bird feeder. Brought to you by the director of OFFSHORE.

Our bear feeder (scratch that) should be bird feeder installation finally stopped the bears from shaking us down for the bird food.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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Urgent! Any suggestions as to what my baby bird is?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

It has down and almost completely covered by feathers. It is brown, like the color of cardboard boxes, with small black dots over it. Its beak is small and is not curved at the end, rather straight, but not like those little birds. Plus, when it walks it raises its legs. It seems to have the potential to grow into one of those big birds, like an owl.

By the way, I live in south TX, down by the Rio Grande Valley, which is right on the border of the US and Mexico. I hope this info helps. I’d really appreciate it, specially if you have any idea as to what I can feed it.

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What’s with this really weird hummingbird behavior?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin| Leave a comment

To you bird people…i live in pennsylvania, and i have a hummingbird feeder. And while hummingbirds that feed on it usually hover, every once in awhile they’ll land on it for 20 or 30 seconds. Well, I noticed a couple weeks ago, one hummingbird when it lands, will do this thing where it sorta bobs its head from side to side…almost like someone listening to hip hop music might. I thought that particular hummingbird might just have some mental or physical problem, but then noticed the other day an entirely different hummingbird clearly doing the same thing. It’s this slow rythmic bobbing of the head back and forth when perched, they may do it 10 or 15 seconds at a time. Both that did it were males.
Is this a mating attractant? Does it deal with sugarwater digestion? Is it already a known behavior to hummingbird experts? I doubt I’ve made some behavioral discovery, but if nobody on here is familar with this behavior, I just might have!

Has anyone seen or heard of this behavior?

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