Winter has finally come to
an end here in Alabama (fingers crossed), and the birds are returning in
droves. On a drive back from Sewanee, TN, my family and I found a robin
standing in the middle of the road. It didn't fly as cars drove by, and I
watched in horror, waiting for it to be crushed by an oncoming car. We turned
our car around, put on the hazard lights, and I scooped the robin up in my
hands and carried it back to the car, wrapping it in my son's t-shirt. It was
obviously in shock (probably hit a car windshield), and its eye was scabbed
over. We placed the robin in a bottomless flight cage my husband had built for
our diamond dove, and let it wait out the night in the garage. The next day, the robin was
alert and anxious to get out of its cage, so I put some antibacterial ointment
on its eye and set it free in our backyard, where after a few moments, it flew
off. Hopefully its eye will get better and it will make a full recovery. One
can only hope.
My 8 year old daughter, being obsessed
with silkie chickens, finally got two of them from a local silkie breeder, and
she's besotted with the fuzzy chicks. Our four laying hens (Red Stars) will
remain in the main coop and yard, while the silkies (when it's warm enough for
them to leave the garage) will inhabit a separate coop.
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