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HELP, please!!!!!
Our good ol' NM wind just blew one bluejay out of his nest. He still has downy feathers. Can't fly but he can sure hop! (Am I naturally attracted to all hoppy creatures? lol) And MY GOODNESS does he have a set of lungs on him!!!
There's not a wildlife rescue (in operation) in our area.
We raised one once before but neither mom nor myself remember what we fed it (this was YEARS ago--I think I mighta been 8yrs old). It seems like mushy dog food and boiled egg?
HELLLLPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
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Hmmmm....I have NO CLUE how/what to do with little birds. I suppose if you tried to put it back in the nest, the mother bird wouldn't come back!!??!!
Here is an article from the Milwaukee Humane Society. Scroll down a little bit on the page and there should be a title " I found a baby bird on the ground. What should I do." That might have some good info. !!Click Here!!
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Thank, YLL. Going to look now!
The nest is WAY up in our tree. Not sure we can get him/her back up there.
Is it true that all wild birds have lice?
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Hmm I know with starling you feed them sometype of mash.
The website of a good starling/house sparow page is www.starlingtalk.com now I know you foudn a blue jay, but you said you feed one egg and dog food, sounds about what we feed our baby starlings.
Keep him warm. A heating pad on low. Put him in a bowl and surround him with paper towels and put a paper towel on top of him. Take a heating pad and put it in a box. Put the heating pad on low and cover it with a blaket. This will keep him warm.
Goodl uck. I will try to find some pages on how to feed a baby blue jay.
O and the myth about if you touch a baby bird the mom will reject it is not true, it would be perfectly fine to put the baby back.
Ash
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Aww Zippy, that's so :(!! I've only had pet birds (parakeet, cockatiels and lovebirds) but no knowledge of wild birds. I guess that's not very helpful, but I wish you the best of luck with him. Hope you find out some answers!!!
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Well, "he" has a name now... Jay Cheeter.
Here's a coupla pics...
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AWWW I want one ;) LOL
He is ADORABLE!!! Good luck! I hope what I told you helps you even a little!
Will you be keeping this little bundle of downey? or will you be releasing him?
Ash
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Thanks Ash! I assume care would pretty much be the same for starlings as jays...?
I'm still trying to locate our heating pad (right now he's under a heat lamp). Whenever I find it, I'll move him into the paper-lined magarine tub like the site suggested. We've mushed some doggie food and boiled an egg... he's ate about 3 bites. And EVERYTIME he eats, he immediately poops! :eek:
As for keeping/releasing... ?? We'll cross that bridge when we come to it... I'm just trying to keep him sustained!
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Oooh oh oh!! He is soo sweet!!! And so little!! Thanks for sharing the pics.
Keep strong, Jay Cheeter!! :)
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Oh he's so cute!! Sorry, I don't have any advice for you, but good luck! :D
It must be that season......a groomer at my work today had a baby bird (maybe a robin?) in a box with her that she was feeding (mushed up dog food). I guess her sister-in-law found it or something, all of the other babies had died and only this one survived. :(
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awwww I dont know much about birds, but I know when I was little my brother, and me, and out friend went for a walk, and we found a young halk with a broken wing on the sidewalk, one of us stayed with e halk, and the other 2 went to get my mom who called the wildlife rehablitation center, and grabed a box and a towel, we got the halk safly to my house and waited for it to be picked up :D by the way jay cheeter is adorable!:D
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he looks so sweet!
Good Thoughts are on the way
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Oh poor baby! He's SO cute! Awww! I don't know much about wild birds so I won't be much help. Good luck! I'm sure you'll do well! :D
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I looked on Google.ca and found birdrescue.org. Under "rehabilitation" there is some good info. Good luck! :)