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From: e343gv@tamuts.tamu.edu (Gary Varner)
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Subject: Re: Help..Urgent....
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Date: 12 Jun 91 18:27:09 GMT
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In article <345@ra.nrl-cmf.UUCP> ghost@ra.UUCP (Glenn Host) writes:

>
>Once you have touched the birds the parents will not come back.
>

This is false.  Sometimes parents will throw a chick out of the nest,
and if you put it back they'll do it again.  But when this happens
it is because the chick is defective somehow, NOT because a human
being touched it.

Illustration:  last spring a chickadee was blown from its nest during
a storm before it was capable of flying.  I fed it a mixture of hard
boiled egg yolk, bred crumbs and milk (the former two scratched through
a fine strainer and just enough of the latter added to make a thick
goop that I squeezed through a syringe into his beak) for three or four
days (almost every half hour from dawn to dusk!) while keeping him free
lofted in ;my bathroom.  When he could fly and perch well I put him in
a pet carrier and walked around the area I'd found him in until a pair
of chickadees reacted to his calls.  When I let him out, he flew up and
both chickadees swooped down to join him in a formation flight into a tree.
I watched for twenty minutes to insure that they were feeding him, which
they were.
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