Housemartin animal rescue!

In September 2001, Shaun's cousin Shane found a fledgeling housemartin on the ground in his garden. He took it to Shaun's Dad's house where Dad and Lorraine, over a period of about two weeks, hand reared it until it could fly.

When they felt it was ready, they set it free. He zoomed off into the sky at a million miles-an-hour, with all the other housemartins.

I love swallows and swifts and martins - all those high-speed sickle-winged birds dazzle me with their aerobatics. It was magical to see one so close.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Bird
• martin
• house
• hand
• reared
• wombwell

[wildrose39]

Beautiful video, I'm rearing a baby house martin at the moment, I've had him 3 weeks. I'm hoping I can release him but he is really tame now, asleep on my shoulder as I type this. I tried last night and he flew away several times then flew back to me again. I'm not quite sure what to do, I want him to be free but I also want him to be safe.

Wildrose and tweet xx

[GFantastic]

This one was really tame but seemed to just know when it was time to leave. It left with all the other housemartins when they migrated for the autumn not long after the video was made in mid-September.

[PedalBikerUK]

Hi

Just been helping one of these along ourselves and it flew away yesterday morning which was lovely. Have posted a video of it and managed to include it setting off into the wild, you might like it.

Cheers,

Q

[wildrose39]

Hi again, my little Tweet has just flown away. I'm so happy he is free and I am so sad he is gone, he and I had developed a special bond and he will always be in my heart. I will watch your video in times when I am missing him. Keep safe, well and happy my beautiful little bird.

Take care gfantastic.

Blessings

Wildrose xx )0(

[VAJICLEAN]

i have just found 1 of these birds in my conservatory could you tell me how i can help, its shaking what are you feeding this little 1, my cat was watching the bird but did`nt seem to attack it i think it may be a little shocked though, any help would be great

[olsjps]

that is a loveley bird,it is nice to see that you have cared for it!!!

[aahbut]

It's nice to see people who care about other things in this world other than themselves.

[airricksreloaded]

Fantastic Video!