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Chicago folks….please.?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by admin| 3 Comments

Hi. Grandparents like to feed the birds in their backyard.
I used to be able to pick up huge bags of bird bread [reject human bread] for them at a place on Milwaukee and Belmont for a buck a bag. They closed down. Know any place on northwest side where they sell cheap bread. I tried the Sara Lee outlet store…their cheapest is $1.35 a loaf. This is grandparents only past-time in this zero degree weather. Any suggestions that I can try? It gets a little expensive feeding their birds at about 25 loaves a month plus the bird seed I buy for them. Thanks.

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Tagged backyard, birds, Chicago, grandparents

How to build a simple backyard bird feeder with Matt Fox of HGTV’s room by room!

Posted on January 6, 2012 by admin| 4 Comments

This video teaches how to build a backyard birdfeeder using simple tools and pretreated lumber. This is a project that anyone who can use a circular saw can accomplish. Step by step instructions taught by Matt Fox of mattandshari.com and HGTV’s room by room.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Tagged backyard, Bird, build, feeder, HGTV's, Matt, room, Simple

save a bird?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

ok so the cat i stray cat in our backyard i asked about like an hour ago? well it tried to catch a bird. the bird escaped into our screened-in porch but is now very injured. we got it into a shoe box and im afraid to check if its dead or not. i dont want to let it die because it has a nest of little chicks that just hatched about a week ago to take care of. anyone know what to do to help, if anything?

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Tagged backyard, Bird, box, cat, chicks, dont, hour, nest, porch, shoe, shoe box, week

Found a baby bird with a broken wing… What Now?!?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by admin| 5 Comments

i found two baby birds fall out of its nest in my backyard, so i tried to put them back but wasn’t able to. so i laid out a plastic box filled with newspaper, put them in it and set them outside away from the house. the mother comes to take care of them. then today one of the baby birds were ready to take on the real world and flew off, leaving the other one alone. i check the the bird that stayed. it seemed healthy and looked like it was ready to fly as well, but then i looked closer and saw that one of its wings weren’t growing right, so it couldn’t fly away. i’m not sure if it happened when it fell off of its nest or just a birth defect. i need some serious help of what to do. i am completely out of ideas on this one.

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Tagged baby, baby bird, baby birds, backyard, Bird, bird with a broken wing, birth defect, box, fly, Found, house, nest, newspaper, plastic, real world, wing, wings

Wild baby bird help? (Emergency!)?

Posted on May 21, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I found a baby bird in my backyard. It has some feathers and does not look like it can fly. I’ve been watching through the window for a couple of hours but the parents have not shown up and it has not come close to flying only hopping. I think it fell from the nest because we just had a storm before i found it. I know i probably should have left it alone, but i didn’t and now its in a shoe box. There are a million trees in my yard and even if i did find the nest it would be impossible to get him back up there even with a ladder. It is sunday and i can’t call a vet, pet store, or wildlife rehabiltator because they are closed. I plan on taking him to the animal welfare on monday, but i have to keep him alive through the night. I don’t know what kind of bird it is but it looks like the one in this video…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf-IJT_C5k

…only younger (it dosn’t have that many featheres) so i don’t know what to feed him or if i should at all. HELP PLEASE!

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Tagged animal welfare, baby, baby bird, backyard, Bird, couple, EMERGENCY, feathers, fly, HELP, ladder, nest, parents, pet store, shoe box, storm, trees, vet, wild, window

i found a wierd baby bird in my backyard HELP!?

Posted on May 21, 2011 by admin| 5 Comments

my brother and i found quite a large baby bird in my backyard the other day. it had been sitting there all day. when we looked up to try and replace it back in a nest we saw nothing near us that looked like one. i brought the baby bird back into my house and since i work at a petstore im keeping it in a box with shavings some cotton and a towel. yesterday it ate some crickets and seemed to keep a few of them down. this morning i woke up and tried to feed it again and it does not seem to want to eat. my boss said that i should call some wildlife person but since i live in the middle of who knows where kansas im not sure where i need to call. does anybody know any wildlife “people” i can call to help me?

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Tagged baby, baby bird, backyard, Bird, boss, brother, crickets, day, HELP, nest, nothing, petstore, shavings, wierd, wildlife