• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

sorry but i found a keeper :)

cornbreadandmilk

cornbreadandmilk

Non-registered User
found a fallen baby tufted titmouse yesterday it had fallen from the nest way way up in an oak tree theres no way i could put it back so i am rearing it until its big enough to fly. strange thing is i also found a hatchling grey rat snake. also. i was walking do the road and boom baby rat snake i turn the corn and find a bird not more than ten feet from one another. ill load up pics of mr. larry bird tomorrow. he sleeps very heavily and i dont wanna bother him. but i got pics of my snake. i descended to keep this guy he will have a great life :) no dangers. this is my second snake this year caught a larger garter snake about two weeks ago.
pollstunts147.jpg

pollstunts146.jpg

pollstunts144.jpg

pollstunts141.jpg

pollstunts154.jpg

pollstunts151.jpg
 
Titmouse photos please? I reared a whole brood of bluetits a few years ago from a disturbed nest but never (stupidly) got any photos of them
 
diamondlil said:
Titmouse photos please? I reared a whole brood of bluetits a few years ago from a disturbed nest but never (stupidly) got any photos of them
Click to expand...

ill get them in the mourning before work check back around noon -one . i have been having a hard time getting mine to eat well. yesterday it ate great but today not so well. what diet do you recommend i have reared starlings and pigeons with success but never messed with these guys.
 
ill get them in the morning before work check back around noon -one . i have been having a hard time getting mine to eat well. yesterday it ate great but today not so well. what diet do you recommend i have reared starlings and pigeons with success but never messed with these guys.
 
I used raw steak mince and chopped hard boiled eggs as well as mealworms. Their parents rear them on huge numbers of caterpillers, which obviously I had no chance of collecting, it was some years ago now but all 9 fledged!
 
my larry bird did not make it through the nite. :( i was feeding him a mixture of fish cat food crickets and sun flowers seeds but he was very hard to feed. i had to force feed him from day one.
 
Ah, I'm sorry to hear that. The reason I've always reared fledglings on raw steak and boiled egg is to give the high protein they need.
 
i had raised all my other birds on a combination of bird seed and dog food, but i switched to cat because of it being higher in protein if he would had made it longer i may had tried that for him sounds like a great diet.
 
It's hard raising really small baby birds though, I probably lost about a quarter of them over the years. Once they've got some feathers they've got more of a chance. At least you tried your best shot instead of just leaving it
 
diamondlil said:
It's hard raising really small baby birds though, I probably lost about a quarter of them over the years. Once they've got some feathers they've got more of a chance. At least you tried your best shot instead of just leaving it
Click to expand...

thanks that makes me feel much better :).
 
RobbiesCornField said:
What a cute little booger!
Click to expand...

thanks man i really like him he is just gorgeous.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

awe adorable. :) ill post pics of mine. the only pics i have unfortunately :( mine was terribly messy too

the size i found him

hh.jpg


a lil older

jj.jpg


he eventually grew up and i set him free but he wouldnt leave the top of my house he slept there and every time i went outside he would fly down to greet me. it was the craziest thing. it would follow me around constantly.
 
I once, when I was around 13, watched a mother Robin after a TERRIBLE rain storm pushing her brand newly hatched babies all out of the nest. Likely, because they had been exposed to bad environmental conditions and were beginning to show signs of failing.
Instead of letting them die, I went over and picked up these four little bald things off the ground and took them home.

Long story short, after every single expert told us "They won't make it. Newly hatched birds never make it, they fell s long way, and Robins are hard to rear", blah blah blah, we raised them to adulthood and built a temporary aviary where we taught them to fly and hunt (with the help of about 300 dollars worth of nite crawlers lol)
I have to say, raising those stinky babies to adulthood and releasing them was one of my proudest moments. Unfortunately, I haven't had a successful bird raising since =/
I'm a TOTAL sucker for the fallen baby birdies, and my dog seems to like to find them and then go get me, too. Last year I ended up with three injured freaking baby birds all because my terrier, well, terrier-ed.
Fuuuuuuuun *sarcasm font*
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top