minkyboodle
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Hello all,
I'm so glad I found this forum as I need a bit of advice. 3 Days ago I discovered a fully feathered but juvenile crow crouching in our back stairwell in our fenced in back lawn. We have two dogs but neither had touched or gotten near it as I spotted it before they did. The bird looked out of sorts but had no visible wounds and held its wings normally. It was in a hidey hole in a cinder block and I decided after looking online that since it was definitely a fledgling (again fully feathered and could hop) that I should leave it be. I was really worried it was sick and and since we have parrots indoors I was hesitant to handle it and like I said it seemed leaving it alone would have been the best idea from what I read.
It stayed like that the all that day and then the next day (Thursday) it seemed to improve rapidly it hopped around the yard begging for food from its family which I observed delivering food to it. I was really relieved to see that it wasn't sick but just unable to fly. Its family has been hanging around and we have told our adjacent neighbors the situation (ie leave the bird be) and our dogs are forbidden from the backyard till it leaves. Yesterday it was more of the same (less begging, but several visits from its family). The fledgling had climbed up a large bush we have that offers lots of cover. I was really thinking that he was about to fly as he begged less and was moving up in the world from the ground at least.
This morning I went out to check hoping that he had made his way and he is actually back on the ground cawing his food call to his family (which are always not too far away). Obviously I'm happy to wait it out as long as necessary I was just wondering if anyone else had experience on the time frame it takes for a crow like this to take wing and join his family (its the 4th day but like I said the 1st day it seemed quite disoriented). I've always loved crows so its nice to observe him for a distance but I worry how long he will be able to avoid the foxes/few neighborhood cats here at night. Thanks for any advice and for the wonderful forum.
Scott
I'm so glad I found this forum as I need a bit of advice. 3 Days ago I discovered a fully feathered but juvenile crow crouching in our back stairwell in our fenced in back lawn. We have two dogs but neither had touched or gotten near it as I spotted it before they did. The bird looked out of sorts but had no visible wounds and held its wings normally. It was in a hidey hole in a cinder block and I decided after looking online that since it was definitely a fledgling (again fully feathered and could hop) that I should leave it be. I was really worried it was sick and and since we have parrots indoors I was hesitant to handle it and like I said it seemed leaving it alone would have been the best idea from what I read.
It stayed like that the all that day and then the next day (Thursday) it seemed to improve rapidly it hopped around the yard begging for food from its family which I observed delivering food to it. I was really relieved to see that it wasn't sick but just unable to fly. Its family has been hanging around and we have told our adjacent neighbors the situation (ie leave the bird be) and our dogs are forbidden from the backyard till it leaves. Yesterday it was more of the same (less begging, but several visits from its family). The fledgling had climbed up a large bush we have that offers lots of cover. I was really thinking that he was about to fly as he begged less and was moving up in the world from the ground at least.
This morning I went out to check hoping that he had made his way and he is actually back on the ground cawing his food call to his family (which are always not too far away). Obviously I'm happy to wait it out as long as necessary I was just wondering if anyone else had experience on the time frame it takes for a crow like this to take wing and join his family (its the 4th day but like I said the 1st day it seemed quite disoriented). I've always loved crows so its nice to observe him for a distance but I worry how long he will be able to avoid the foxes/few neighborhood cats here at night. Thanks for any advice and for the wonderful forum.
Scott
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