You won’t believe what happened!! Early this morning, I was about to water my back garden, when the chickens started clucking for no reason. This usually means there is something that they are not familiar with in the area. So I looked around and under the potato plant (now a huge tree!) there was a baby bird that had fallen out of its nest. Shame!!! It was being attacked by ants (those alltime pests!!) so I brushed them off and took her inside. Now we have a baby bird to nurse to health. The mommy dove made a silly little nest in the tree and the baby obviously was not secure in it. I waited and waited, but the mommy bird never came back. So Hannes and I immediately googled “feeding baby dove” and found an amazing website showing us how to feed it successfully – quite a delicate process, but we managed. Take a syringe and cut the top off and put a rubber glove finger tip over the top of it and make a decent hole for the birdy to feed through and voila!! She was eating perfectly!! Yey! So we will have to find a name for her and we will keep you posted with photo’s of her progress.
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3 replies on “Baby dove fell from nest”
Oh my Goodness, little birdie! Well all I can say is if I were a birdie in the same situation, I would be thanking my lucky stars that I landed in your garden! Let us know what you have named it x
OMG!! That is so sweet – and pitiful too. I hope it survives. Please keep me posted!
I know – if I had not gone out this morning…..! And the strangest thing is the nest this mother bird attempted to build. It is literally a few twigs. You would think that by now a dove would know how to build a nest! Poor baby bird. We will take good care of it!