Please Help My New Feathered Friend!

Robo

Songster
9 Years
Jul 15, 2010
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Knoxville,TN
Okay, I was out planting today and the neighbors were shooting the bb gun. They were walking around shooting birds and I was fine until... They shot a robin and it flopped into my yard. They laughed at it for a long time and I found it and tried to help it. Well, it died after laying an egg in my garden. Then I see a little bird slightly bigger than a finch. (S)he flopped down from a tree and landed in my yard. It's wing was hanging by a thread and it was bleeding. what was left of the wing fell off when I picked it up. It is alive so far and very active. It will flop around on my leg and things like that. I fed it some crushed up scratch with water. It ate it and drank some. So my question is what do I do with this thing? If it lives I can't release it, and when I set it on the porch it ran off and tried to hop in a tree. I looked in the tree and found two small eggs. I'm guessing their her's if it is a she... So, what do I do?!?
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Well, I have no idea what it is... It is larger than a finch but slightly smaller than a sparrow. I'll post a pic tomorrow.
 
Call wildlife rehab near you?

If you have an incubator, I wonder if you can pop all those eggs in it? I have no idea really... but Please, Please, speak to the authorities about your neighbor and make sure they file a report if nothing else.... who knows what they will kill/injure next?
 
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I don't mind them killing doves to eat and crows, but this little bird shouldn't have been shot. I can't decide if I should hatch the eggs or not. I have quail egg racks so they'd fit...
 
My idiot neighbors did the same thing yesterday.
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The bird they killed was a red headed woodpecker. I'm still trying to figure out what to do about it. They know I am the only one that saw them and I'm worried about them harming my animals if I report it. I did call them a few choice names when it happened. I'm not ususlly intimidated by anyone but these people worry me.
 

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