HELP, please!!!!!

[zippy-kat]

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!!!!!!!!!

[Desert Arabian]

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!!

[zippy-kat]

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?

[Aspen and Misty]

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

[Cookiebaker]

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!!!

[zippy-kat]

Well, "he" has a name now... Jay Cheeter.

Here's a coupla pics...

[zippy-kat]

one more....

[Aspen and Misty]

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

[zippy-kat]

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!

As for keeping/releasing... ?? We'll cross that bridge when we come to it... I'm just trying to keep him sustained!

[Cookiebaker]

Oooh oh oh!! He is soo sweet!!! And so little!! Thanks for sharing the pics.

Keep strong, Jay Cheeter!!

[wolf_Q]

Oh he's so cute!! Sorry, I don't have any advice for you, but good luck!

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.

[cali]

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 by the way jay cheeter is adorable!

[shais_mom]

he looks so sweet!
Good Thoughts are on the way

[popcornbird]

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!

[Nomilynn]

I looked on Google.ca and found birdrescue.org. Under "rehabilitation" there is some good info. Good luck!