Really hate articles that tell you to find a professional for injured animals. More often than not, that means they kill the babies so they aren’t contaminated by contact with people. When I took in a baby robin, it was almost impossible to find out how to feed it because all the articles said it was illegal in our state to save the life of a baby and were afraid to tell how to care for it. My neighbor called for a goose that followed her and took food. The “professionals” came and killed it because it was too people oriented. She naively thought they were going to take it to a pond with other geese. I find that arrogance that only their opinions on the “right” attitude toward wildlife are the right attitudes as upsetting as their attitudes toward politics.
That den looks pretty comfortable, once you get it stocked with furniture and stuff. Not half bad.
Cute. I wish that were the extent a my white lad who goes into a panic attack. The only positive is that he hears it love before it ever hits, so we know it’s coming.
That response says pretty much “I don’t know what that thing is but it sounds like it could eat me”.
I reacted the same way the first time I heard one!
When we built the addition, I had the construction people cut the evergreen straight down the trunk, top to bottom. From the outside, the tree looked intact. From the house, the branches were completely visible. So the parents would drop off the babies at Evergreen Playschool while they went out foraging, their offspring safe from the hawk I once saw in the yard.
Baby Birds - Etude - Chopin - 1993
https://youtu.be/5pVqvCsrZaY