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Some pictures I took recently
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Can I post images of a dead bird? It's not graphic or bloody.
My mum arrived home with a young bird who could not fly- I raised ducks and such as a young child and rescued birds but now I tend to leave nature to do its course, but no one can say "let it die" to their own mother who brought it dutifully home.
Hydrated the wee thing and fed it- however it was very reluctant to eat.
Did not want to stress it out by handling that much, it was around 9pm when it came here so I thought it should sleep.
Small shoe box, straw and feather mixed together in a dark, quiet, moderate temp room over night.
Set my alarm for 5.30am to start the feeding, sorry wee creature was dead.
I am guessing it was a wren, so bloody tiny, and such a big chirp on it for such a tiny thing.
I buried it out back with oak leaves under a stone.
Mod, if the images should be removed, go right a head, but its in attachments so only click if you wanna see.
On that rather morbid note, I have a folder of dead bird images, roadkill and the like, for art, if I am allowed I will share.
I aint a photographer, my camera is more a reference tool.0 -
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Pensivepuca wrote: »Can I post images of a dead bird? It's not graphic or bloody.
My mum arrived home with a young bird who could not fly- I raised ducks and such as a young child and rescued birds but now I tend to leave nature to do its course, but no one can say "let it die" to their own mother who brought it dutifully home.
Hydrated the wee thing and fed it- however it was very reluctant to eat.
Did not want to stress it out by handling that much, it was around 9pm when it came here so I thought it should sleep.
Small shoe box, straw and feather mixed together in a dark, quiet, moderate temp room over night.
Set my alarm for 5.30am to start the feeding, sorry wee creature was dead.
I am guessing it was a wren, so bloody tiny, and such a big chirp on it for such a tiny thing.
I buried it out back with oak leaves under a stone.
Mod, if the images should be removed, go right a head, but its in attachments so only click if you wanna see.
On that rather morbid note, I have a folder of dead bird images, roadkill and the like, for art, if I am allowed I will share.
I aint a photographer, my camera is more a reference tool.
A pity, but at least you did your best for it!
It can be a real problem where people find a chick who they think has been abandoned and can't fly, and then pick it up and bring it off to someone - not realising that the parents would probably have come back to the chick in most cases! And that otherwise, its probably still best to leave it and let nature take its course0 -
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Starling perhaps?
I am not sure, he was pretty small and his belly and breast is not as brown as a starlings.OpenYourEyes wrote: »Yeah they'd normally live in fairly dense cover, but often on the ground near hedges etc
She said she found it on the roadside beside a fenced field.MeteoritesEire wrote: »young robinIt looks like a baby robin to me. And if it was, they most certainly do have a very loud chirp! Poor little mite, whatever it was. Your post reminded me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip when they find a little raccoon and try to rescue it but it dies overnight.
Robin does seem likely, the pale kinda belly, I just assumed wren due to that chirp!
Some lungs on them.
Ah, good old hobbes
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Hopefully, OpenYourEyes might be able to help me re-identify some of these if needed.
All taken on Ireland's Eye today:
Gannet juvenile is a Common Guillemot!
Nice pics!
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My umbellifer patch (early cover bed) on the farm. Corncrake calling away this evening. He's most likely a refugee from across the bay, where hay is been cut. Luckily he wasn't chopped to bits. Hopefully it's not too late for him to attract a female and hopefully get some chicks. Silage won't be cut till Sept 1st or if the weather permits hay. The mower will cut centre-out.0 -
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