The Crew

Axl & Lola Brother and sister pitbull/sharpei mixes. Just about 1 year old and very, very high energy. Axl has some fear issues that we are trying to work through and Lola is way too smart.

Mr. P, Ricci, and Tweety - Ringneck parakeets. All three talk up a storm, I'm just waiting for them to start talking to each other.

Sherlock - A mustached parakeet. He's about 8 months old and we are unsure he's a he. I guess we'll find out.

The Rest of the Crew

Chubs and Kiko - a pair of cockatiels that have yet to produce viable eggs.

The Parakeets - we began with a pair of English Budgies but one got out. We then adopted 2 white parakeets to keep the English company. They had 3 babies. The English is blue & known as Rocky, while the white ones are indistinguishable and collectively called the Angels.

Wild bird rescue

can now be added to my list of achievements. This morning during my run I found one of these guys on the side of the road with 2 broken legs.


S/He seems to be in pretty good shape except that it's legs don't work. I have a call into the wild bird rehab people and I'm waiting to find out what to do with this guy. It looks fairly catastrophic to me and I honestly can't imagine what can be done for it. But it's now resting comfortably in a basket lined with towels and awaiting it's fate.

Update: Turns out nothing seems to be broken. It's a very young bird who is underweight. Also, by the time I got him to the rehabber he was starting to move one of his legs. The belief is that with some good food and a little rest he'll gain weight and strength and be released back to the wild. Yea for those selfless people that will take in a bird like this. He will need to be force fed for a few days until he can stand, then he will have to learn to hunt again. Thank god for people like the rehabber.

4 comments:

  1. Lynne said...
     

    Oh my! I certainly hope something can be done, how tragic! I wonder what in the world happened to the poor thing to cause it to have both legs broken, very odd.

    Sewingmom

  2. Cynthia Blue said...
     

    That's so wonderful of you! What a lucky little guy. And I'm glad he got to a rehabber that can take care of his needs!

  3. China Cat said...
     

    That is wonderful that you were able to get him to the rehabber!

  4. Lynda Lehmann said...
     

    He's a magnificent bird and I'm glad you gave him a new chance at life!

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