i rescued a baby woodpecker from the drooling jaws of my big red dog today.
ok. so that was rather dramatic ...
the real story is that this little guy was seeing stars after he flew into my big sliding glass door at the back yard, of which, lying on the deck was my big red dog, jack.
i heard the thump. i got up and looked. and there was this little guy trying to get his wits about him again. and there lay jack. just looking at him. too dang lazy to get up and even sniff it.
So I opened the door --- yelled at jack - even though he didnt do anything. he knew i was yelling at him in case he even thought about anything evil. I went back into the laundry room, grabbed a towel, went back & picked up the little guy and moved him to my front porch.
(shut it! i know!! it needs painted!)
It took him a little while to start moving around and then he hopped over and took ahold of one of the porch spindles, you know, how woodpeckers do. i went back to check on him about half hr later and he was still there - another half hour - he was gone.
I just hope he got up and boogied on his own --- and not in the drooling jaws of some fat country cat
Awwwwww! Much too cute! yeah, the babies don't really fly too well to begin with, but once they get the hang of it.... boom they're off and flying!
ReplyDeleteWe had our finches to watch last month....
are you saving any wallpaper for me if i ever get enough gas money to drive the 1500 miles, that would be 7500 dollars for gas and 60 for the wallpaper...the birds around here have to dodge the cats, that is all i do now is blog and watch the birds
ReplyDeletei used every inch of wallpaper! looks like you just saved 7500.00 in gas - why not go buy yourself something nice with it?!!
ReplyDeleteSo sweet of you to rescue the woodpecker. How lucky your vicious attack dog (hehehe) didn't eat it.
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