Updates On 11th Oct 2012

Julie Nuzzo, latest participant in The Great Animal Rescue Chase reports:

“My husband and I have a one-half-acre property with a large vegetable garden in the back. The garden is surrounded by a fence that includes fold over fencing to keep out racoons, possums, etc., an underground fence to keep out digging rodents, and an electric dog fence that runs around the top edge. Whenever I find fledgling birds hopping around my yard in the spring and summer, I catch them with a butterfly net and put them in the garden. I make sure that the parents see me doing this, so they know where their offspring is.

There is usually plenty of grass seed, grubs, worms, etc. for the baby bird to eat, and if I think that it might need supplementary food, I throw a handful of seeds and nuts from the birdfeeder where they can easily be found. I also put a dish of water in the garden. The baby can hide from hawks under the picnic table, and the parents can reach it. If the hatchling hasn’t fledged yet, I create a nest with a milk crate and nesting materials, and open the picnic table umbrella to protect it from the weather, and from hawks. The fence protects it from everything else. When the baby is strong enough to fly over the fence, it’s ready to go off on its own, and in the meantime, it can strengthen its wings by flying into the dwarf apple trees that are in the garden. I feel really good that I can help my local fauna this way!”

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