Rescue Great Tit - Feeding himself
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I LOVE GREAT TITS!
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Sweeeet! =)
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Aww how sweet1 So glad to see it found a home with other birds after you rescued it. It was very hungry and chirpy!
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great feeding
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Great story - after stumbling across this post initially I went off looking through all your other clips of him as well - the most heartwarming drama I've seen since 'The King's Speech'. :-) .
We effectively did the same thing for a little Herring Gull chick which fell off its chimney nest during a gale a few years ago and was abandoned by its parents. We could write a book about the experience, we learned / saw so many extraordinary things along the way.
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Hello Liz, you did a brilliant job there - normally when they're that young they just fade away and die no matter what you try to do. Not only that, you managed to re-inegrate it into the wild as well. Amazing. We have large numbers of wild birds including Great-Tits coming to our feeders, but we've never had to rescue an orphan yet, touch wood. How did you end up looking after this one?
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Tits like coconuts.
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Blimey - what's it like to have a herring gull chick constantly begging you to feed him? lol! :0) This little tiddler was relentless enough! :-D
You do learn a lot about them as you care for them that's for sure. Thanks for your kind comments - I'm glad you've enjoyed my video records of the little waifs I've tried to help. :0)
suffolkliz 11 months ago
Hi - he was one of nine fledglings, the runt and he got left behind in the boxafter the others had long gone. He would have just died normally but I had a camera in the box so once I was certain that he had been abandoned I rescued him. I did talk to a wildlife hospital about the time lapse between the others going to double-check that he had been abandoned and they too were in no doubt either.
This one was a little star and he joined up with a group of fledglings a few weeks after release.
suffolkliz 11 months ago
Hi, I looked after this little bird for about a week and a half indoors then transferred him to an outside greenhouse where it learned to feed without help after a while. We left the door open once it was a little older and agile so it could come and go as it wanted. It stayed with us for about two months before it decided it was happy enough to fend for itself. It joined up with a group of juvenile great tits and it seemed really healthy and had naturalised really well when I saw it last.
suffolkliz 1 year ago 5