My kids just buried...

[kimbac3]

26 baby birds

We found them when I took the kids and the dog for a walk. We have a long row of cedar trees next to our house and that's where we started to find the nests. They were everywhere and birds were everywhere. It was awful.

Apparently that bad storm we had this weekend just blew them all everywhere. The birds ranged from tiny and new to feathered and just about to leave the nest. We also found 3 eggs that haven't hatched yet. They are blue with brown speckles - Robin eggs I'm guessing.

My girls were so upset. My son - not so much - but he did the scooping up and burying. He's a good brother


Kimba

 

[*NikkiBell*]

That is so sad! I hate when Mother Nature has PMS.

 

[CelticBelle]

I hate when Mother Nature has PMS.

But really that is terrible. I still remember having to bury several pets and animals when i was young growing up in the country. When i was very little our dogs ate our rabbit that had gotten out. There was hair everywhere, but that was it. My parents told us that the rabbit escaped down into his hole and that he was ok...he wasnt

 

[dolcezena]

Ugh, that's awful. (The birds & the bunny & dogs).

Our house is next door to a home-run daycare (naturally the only part of the fence that's 4-ft instead of 6), & the kids at the daycare are always hanging over the fence when I take the dogs out. (One of the dogs loves to show off catching his frisbee). Anyway, last spring he (the dog) managed to catch & kill two of the little baby bunnies that live under our garden shed. He was tossing them in the air & then catching them.

Naturally the kids wanted to know what he was doing & if the bunnies were OK. I told them the bunnies were fine - they were just sleeping.

 

[tinkbutt]

so sad

 

[SamIAm21]

I found baby robins out of the nest after a storm once. The mama robin was frantic and cheeping very loudly from the tree. I went in the house, grabbed a bunch of paper towels, tried to scoop the babies up without touching them, and then I put them in a hanging planter/pot that I had laying around and hung it from a tree branch as high as I could. I don't know if it helped or not, but it seemed to be the right thing to do. At least the babies were going to be "cat lunch". I went back a few weeks later and the babies weren't in there... so I'm not sure what happened, but I preferred to think that maybe they had made it...??

Mother Nature has been quite nasty to the Midwest this year. It seems to never end. First a horrible winter and now a pretty yucky spring!

 

[DVCsince02]

We suffered the same NorEaster and lost some shingles off the roof. DH went up yesterday after work to put on new shingles when he noticed a piece of straw sticking out of the dryer vent. Well that one piece of straw ended up being a nest two feet deep up the dryer vent with 3 eggs in it. Well it was either risk the house catching on fire or removing the nest. So, he tried not to touch the eggs and move the nest to the tree, but I don't think it looks too good the the eggs.

 

[miss missy]

awe that is so sad