Hello everyone,
I am new here. I have been caring for a robin fledgling for 2 weeks now. Some background: I am a teacher, woke with special needs students. A student picked up the bird. We don’t know where the nest was. Student gave bird to fellow teacher who is a retired vet. We both took turn caring for bird.
It was brought indoors at night and brought home 1st weekend. Throughout the day, it was left outside and we would feed it every few hours. He was hopped around and learned to fly short distances. The area is a bird paradise with feeders, birdbaths and perennials. Anyway, bird was finally left out over night hoping it would find its parents. Next day, it was nowhere to be seen in the morning, but around lunch time it flew down and landed on a students head. It was Friday so I took it home for the weekend. It wasn’t safe with our students and needed a more secluded space.
Since then, it has been outside. It went from taking feedings from a syringe to now foraging. It is picking up things from the ground. It still comes to me for feedings, and will peep louder when I go outside, but now it is taking worms that I throw on the ground. He then flies or hops away when it is full. Seems like he is not eating as much so I think it is finding some food. I am wondering, how long do they take to feed on their own? He is flying really well now. Goes back and forth across my 1 acre yard.
First photo was yesterday. 2nd is from the first few days. He looks even bigger today. It’ll be 2 weeks tomorrow since he was found. He could fly very short distance by 2nd day we had him. Thanks everyone.
I am new here. I have been caring for a robin fledgling for 2 weeks now. Some background: I am a teacher, woke with special needs students. A student picked up the bird. We don’t know where the nest was. Student gave bird to fellow teacher who is a retired vet. We both took turn caring for bird.
It was brought indoors at night and brought home 1st weekend. Throughout the day, it was left outside and we would feed it every few hours. He was hopped around and learned to fly short distances. The area is a bird paradise with feeders, birdbaths and perennials. Anyway, bird was finally left out over night hoping it would find its parents. Next day, it was nowhere to be seen in the morning, but around lunch time it flew down and landed on a students head. It was Friday so I took it home for the weekend. It wasn’t safe with our students and needed a more secluded space.
Since then, it has been outside. It went from taking feedings from a syringe to now foraging. It is picking up things from the ground. It still comes to me for feedings, and will peep louder when I go outside, but now it is taking worms that I throw on the ground. He then flies or hops away when it is full. Seems like he is not eating as much so I think it is finding some food. I am wondering, how long do they take to feed on their own? He is flying really well now. Goes back and forth across my 1 acre yard.
First photo was yesterday. 2nd is from the first few days. He looks even bigger today. It’ll be 2 weeks tomorrow since he was found. He could fly very short distance by 2nd day we had him. Thanks everyone.