05-07-2015, 02:26 AM
This is good information Catherine.
I remember once (back in the '80s) finding a young Crow who was flopping about all over the rocks (above the tide-line) on a beach nearby. I took hold of him, and took him immediately to a bird sanctuary close by for their help and advice.
Well I never got a telling-off as good as that in my life!
The man more or less frog-marched me back to where I'd found him and told me to let him go and not to interfere again. He said he was getting fed up of people 'rescuing' birds who were perfectly all right and just finding their way in life while their parents watched over them.
I learned a lesson that day.
But there are also times when we can help....as you did Catherine. I never have much luck with little waifs and strays from the wild. They always die when I try to help them. But what you did was wonderful, and helped them both so much.
I remember once (back in the '80s) finding a young Crow who was flopping about all over the rocks (above the tide-line) on a beach nearby. I took hold of him, and took him immediately to a bird sanctuary close by for their help and advice.
Well I never got a telling-off as good as that in my life!
The man more or less frog-marched me back to where I'd found him and told me to let him go and not to interfere again. He said he was getting fed up of people 'rescuing' birds who were perfectly all right and just finding their way in life while their parents watched over them.
I learned a lesson that day.
But there are also times when we can help....as you did Catherine. I never have much luck with little waifs and strays from the wild. They always die when I try to help them. But what you did was wonderful, and helped them both so much.
