Working with Nature
It’s been such a ‘birdie’ beginning of summer! We had Western Tanagers migrating through our area and they are such beautiful eye- candy that all one could do was stop and look at them. Unfortunately, one of the males flew into my neighbor’s patio door so hard that it obviously had a concussion. We tried to revive it with diluted orange juice in a syringe. My neighbor, Phoebe, and I emailed each other through the day. “Henry is safely installed in our AZ room in the aquarium with a small maple branch, water, o.j. and seeds. He hasn't taken more juice, but has moved around, out of the box a couple of times. Keep the fingers crossed!” Sometime in the night our patient (Phoebe named him Henry) gave up the fight and he was buried in the yard under a rock. This was the first time I had the privilege of actually holding a wild bird. He was so light and his feathers were such beautiful colors. Quite the...
