This afternoon, George said he ate a worm. I hope he was joshing, because Wild Bird Rescue needs every single worm this spring to feed the patients.
After I helped Alicia write a grant that we hope will get us started in come brick and mortar capital improvements for Wild Bird Rescue, I hung around taking pictures of the fledglings growing up there. I, the volunteers, and BirdManBob, look forward to the day of their release -- a wondrous day.
Above, I picture a gal we think is a Brown-headed Cowbird.
I employed HDR technology for this photograph of a group of Kingbirds, just to bring out some of the dark corners. If you squint hard enough, you can see another group of Kingbirds in the background, sitting in the next cage. Below, I show a series of photographs I took of Alicia, whom I like to call "super volunteer," feeding the birds.
It is incredibly difficult to feed Kingbirds when they near their adult stage, for they will take their food as they fly, in the air, rather from a bowl lovingly provided to them by the volunteers; this means that super volunteers such as Alicia must dangle the worms above them.
How easy to feed a hatchling hawk!
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