Sunday, September 13, 2009

Birdie mommie?


Those of you who know me, might remember our adventure with "Tweetie" bird who we reared 3 years ago. He was a baby cape white eye, who was a tiny little featherless pink thing when the girls found him lying on the grass in our garden. We had MANY adventures with him, including seeing Thomas our cat dashing out the front door with what appeared to be Tweeties tail hanging out of his mouth he escape our cats teeth, and was rescued by moi after chasing Thomas around the garden in my pj's and slippers. Well a couple of months later, we released Tweetie back into our garden. Well today I went out to my car, and saw not 1 but 2 little fledglings lying on the grass outside my front door. I'm not into birding, but i know that we've had these birds nesting in our roof, so figured mom and dad bird were obviously about to do the flight lessons. Anyway, after tearing away the neigbourhood children, who were all engrosed in out front lawn activites, the girls and I went to spend the day at my moms house. When we returned, Paige and Sam made a bee-line to see if the babies were still in our garden. They were, and although the parents were always around, it quickly became clear to me, that these babies were not going to be any flying tonight. As it got dark, the parents dissapeared, and the kids started stressing about the babies being eaten by the cat next door.

Well what can I say, we're fostering again, but only until the morning......

{PS: it kinda looks like a robin, but if anyone knows what they are, please let me know. tx}

3 comments :

Michelle Ramsay said...

Aw those are so cute. Your previous bird must have told them how great it was being looked after by you and so they came to stay!!!

linda andrew said...

ok ja well no fine.....

Andrea said...

I would say def Robins....reminds me of the one our dogs caught and we kept over night.
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