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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cathy C" data-source="post: 359748" data-attributes="member: 24424">undefinedundefinedundefinedHello....My name is Cathy and I have no idea how to make the fonts, etc. work here!! I am new here, and I have 2 baby blue jays I am not sure how to feed. I also just finished nursing and raising and releasing 2 red breasted robins..my first success in my entire life at actually saving one. I live in the blue Ridge Mountains in Va. and near the Shenandoah River. Each day I go outside and call the babies I raised, and today 2 white birds on the bottom landed in the tree over me and began squaking at me...and I have no clue why. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw in the yard a little thing with white...and as I walked down the hill this bird flew over me and landed in the tree near where I was. She gave me no problem picking up the baby, but seemed to get aggravated again once I got back to the porch and bird cage I still had out there. I looked back, and almost did not see there was another. After I picked this one up as well, she was fine. I do not know if they had seen me with the robins outside for a few days before I finally opened their door to free them or what, but I do know had I left them there cats would have killed them. I live in the woods, but in a small private development, and there are cats around. I raised the robins by soaking hard kitten food in the beginning in water, and then graduated to pouch food in juices and gravy and fed them with tweezers, until I finally stopped because I knew they could do it for themselves. These little ones seem to want to do nothing but sleep....I did get each of them to eat maybe a piece or 2. The robins were much more active at eating and demanding it, and I just am not sure what to feed these 2 babies. They have feathers, but no tail feathers. they cannot fly up onto a perch yet in the cage so I have them snuggled in a box tonight. I would really appreciate any advice from anyone who has raised baby blue jays, because I know they will be killed if I put them back outside. I have a cockatiel whom I let fly free in my home..tho he mostly stays on a curtain rod over the cage, where his food, ladders, etc. are built onto a wooden platform as he just did not like to get in his cage ever. So they will at least hear another bird...it seemed comforting to the robins. Thank you for the welcome to the group and any advice anyone can offer....Cathy C.</blockquote>

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