Kootenay
Well-Known Member
Was out filling the horse's water trough yesterday, when there was a commotion with the robins and some unknown bird-(at the time). The robins literally picked/tortured this bird out of the sky. Once it landed with a terrible hurt screeching sound , I see that it's HURT--badly
. Once I caught it, I saw that it's wing is broken to the bone/flesh.
There isn't much chance of it living out on it's own like that, so I have it in a quiet area of my barn. I've been giving it water-(in between pecks to my fingers). It seems to be the age where it has just left the nest, and now that it has survived all this shock--how to fix it/feed it. Nobody in my area takes wild birds, and if I let it go i'm sure it will die.
I've rehabbed birds before, but never a juvenile black & white woodpecker
(Picture Of What Bird Species This One Is)
I'll take pictures after a while.
--Also--everytime this bird makes noise the Robins go nuts outside the barn. It's almost like a scene out of that movie "The Birds". Poor thing
.
There isn't much chance of it living out on it's own like that, so I have it in a quiet area of my barn. I've been giving it water-(in between pecks to my fingers). It seems to be the age where it has just left the nest, and now that it has survived all this shock--how to fix it/feed it. Nobody in my area takes wild birds, and if I let it go i'm sure it will die.
I've rehabbed birds before, but never a juvenile black & white woodpecker
(Picture Of What Bird Species This One Is)
I'll take pictures after a while.
--Also--everytime this bird makes noise the Robins go nuts outside the barn. It's almost like a scene out of that movie "The Birds". Poor thing