How do you teach a bird to eat seeds & food without a dropper and on it’s own?
About a week ago I found a mockingbird hopping around my yard(there’s tons of cats around here).I looked up on the internet what to feed him,went to the pet store,bought it, put it in a blender,and then a dropper to feed him.
I read that if you put him back where you find him his mom would come to him even if he had been human handled in the case of mockingbirds.So yesterday I tried to do the right thing and opened his cage and let him fly away where we’d found him.Lots of mockingbirds flew up to him but no one would feed him,we watched for hours.
I tried to leave it in nature’s hands and said a little prayer for him.Well,today he was crying at my back door starving.He let me get him and feed him and went back in his little cage.
I know it’s illegal to keep these birds,I tried to let him go.
But what about the whole
“If you love something set it free,If it comes back to you” thing?
I’m going to keep him…
but I don’t know how to teach him to go from dropper to eating for himself…
No Gracee,I have no clue how old he is…