Worried

[muninnhuginn]

I know this is typically perverse, but it's been unusually quiet up in the loft today. Should I have fed little starling yesterday before we replaced it in the nest? (It didn't seem in any worse condition than the previous two occasions, not desperately dehydrated and apparently uninjured.) Should we have put it back at all? Was handling it going to cause its mother to cease feeding it?

Even if it's OK now, it has inevitably suffered more stress than it ought, at the time when its feathers are forming. Stressed bird equals weak feathers: not a good start in life.

Hah! Can't win. And I really don't want another pet. It had to go back... or elsewhere.

Comments

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

From what I have been told, handling the bird will not cause a parent to reject it: they jsut say that so the kids will lay off squeezing the poor things to death.