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I found a bird

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  • 16-07-2015 12:12am
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    lynchieboy
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭


    My son found a bird tonight, it seems very fatigued or injured, we put it in a shoe box with some water and seeds, there are lots of foxes and cats around here so it probably wouldn't be alive in morning I think it is a swallow but not sure!
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    daveville30
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    Looks like a swallow from his head.put the box up high and hope he makes it.


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    Del.Monte
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    It's a Swift and certainly won't eat seeds. If it's still alive this morning best left back where it was found and let nature take its course.

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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Please return it to where you found it, as soon as possible.


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    ThunderCat
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    Fair play to you OP but that species of bird won't survive in your care. They feed on insects on the wing. As others have said, put it back as high as possible. Well done though.


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    PeteK*
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    I just found a hawk trying to eat what looked like a small dove. (in bushes)
    The hawk flew off and the dove had some blood on its back.. mainly above his left wing.
    My dad said the hawk would return as soon as I left and that I should move the bird about 20 yards.
    I didn't want to touch it because of the wounds. I hope it survives!


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    ThunderCat
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    PeteK* wrote: »
    I just found a hawk trying to eat what looked like a small dove. (in bushes)
    The hawk flew off and the dove had some blood on its back.. mainly above his left wing.
    My dad said the hawk would return as soon as I left and that I should move the bird about 20 yards.
    I didn't want to touch it because of the wounds. I hope it survives!


    The hawk deserves it's meal in my opinion. No doubt it has already done sufficient damage to the dove that it won't survive anyway. Just let nature take it's course. It may be tough to watch sometimes, but the hawk has to eat aswell.


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    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Boils my blood when people try to save an animal that's been preyed upon.
    It's circle of life. Worst part is when people stop a bop from killing a prey animal.


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    endacl
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    Nature ain't fluffy. It works best when we stay out of the way.


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    PeteK*
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    Boils my blood when people try to save an animal that's been preyed upon.
    It's circle of life. Worst part is when people stop a bop from killing a prey animal.
    I agree with ThunderCat and I didn't actually go near it.

    I scared the hawk off by mistake and just felt bad for the other bird. I left it where it was and didn't touch it at all.


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    dodderangler
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    PeteK* wrote: »
    I agree with ThunderCat and I didn't actually go near it.

    I scared the hawk off by mistake and just felt bad for the other bird. I left it where it was and didn't touch it at all.
    I understood that from your original post but just saying in general that it's wrong for people to interfere with a bop and it's prey.
    Too many times I've heard people scaring a bop off it's prey and then it's prey later dies so basically it died for nothing and goes to waste and that bop will then kill another bird leaving two prey animals dead and only one consumed for a purpose


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