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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tresstine" data-source="post: 3018847" data-attributes="member: 127489">Baby jackdaw careI have a large copper beech tree in my garden+old jackdaw nesting sites.I had three cats - not good when rescuing a baby jackdaw. (1) Solution climb onto roof to leave jackdaw in valley gutter. I realised that this was too exposed a site.  (2) Be mother jackdaw.  Cook up some spaghetti and feed like you are giving it a long worm and also scrambled egg for protein. It gobbles it up.Jackdaws do not get up that early but 5.0am is early enough. Feed then one goes back to bed and back to sleep perhaps! The Jackdaw can be kept in a shed or similar. 10.00am is the next feed time and then whenever possible. Flying practice can take place by having bird on hand and giving a wave action, up and down slowly to encourage wings to flap. Then back to a perch or somewhere safe.The fun starts outside when the cats are kept indoors whilst there is flying practise proper. Then a miracle when Jack flys all around the beech tree and back to my hand. I say go and find your real mum and aunties and uncles which eventually he/she does.  After that when I call Jack he came to me over the chimney tops from wherever.  Also occasionally sitting on a high wall when we were in the garden having tea. So rewarding but I couldn't do it again.He must have been sitting on our chimney once, heard my voice below and appeared in the room where I was out of the fireplace. The tragedy was that it must have happened again and this time the chimney was a blocked one, because years after I was unblocking that fireplace and found a dead jackdaw. It was years ago that I had my loyal Jack. It might not have been my Jack but he did mysteriously disappear one day.</blockquote>

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