On 7/5/07 10:34, in article , "Space"
wrote:

Help needed

We have had a problem the last two days with chicks in the garden. We tried
to rescue two chicks as they wandered around the garden on Saturday. Mum
and dad were flying around frantically trying to look for and then feed the
chicks. Yesterday we came across another chick - it is either one of the
two or it is a third chick.

The starlings roost in our roof - and today I can't hear any activity. I
wonder if because they have lost all their chicks they have moved on
somewhere else.

Meanwhile, this chick is in a cat basket outside in the garden. We have
opened the top and it is moving around.

But after that.........what can we do?


Wait to see if the parents find it and that the previous occupant of the cat
basket doesn't! Then, if after a few hours, nothing has happened, find your
local bird sanctuary, put the chicks in a dark box with air holes in it and
take them there. Ring first to make sure there's someone accepting new
arrivals on a Bank Holiday!
We did this a couple of years ago with a young sparrow which we found under
the church lych gate. No parents in sight and no very close tree from which
it had fallen. We took it to a woman in Totnes who has established a tiny
bird sanctuary in her back garden, gave her a donation and the sparrow and
rang a day or two later. He was still alive, against all the odds and three
weeks later had taken off into the wide blue yonder.
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)
Devon County Show 17-19 May
http://www.devoncountyshow.co.uk/