Three years ago on a cold evening in March a baby starling
fell out of its nest in next door's roof onto the path. I tried to walk past but had to turn back and pick him up. He didn't appear hurt, apart from being pissed off with the sibling who pushed him out, so I took him indoors.
He was christened "Sidney" and given dog food off the back of a teaspoon handle and water from an eyedropper. I kept him in a cardboard box with scrunched up paper inside. He was quiet when the lid was closed but would respond energetically when he heard me start to open the lid.
There was no-one at home daytimes so I took him to work with me because he needed feeding at least every hour during daylight.
One morning after about two weeks I heard frantic rustling as I went to his box. When I opened it he tried to fly out so I took the box outside on the lawn and let him take off. His parents were sat on our fence and he went straight to them and started begging. They looked surprised but they seem to accept him and they flew off together.
His siblings didn't fledge until three days later so chicken in jelly appears to be more nutritious than grubs and leftovers.
One of the most rewarding things I have done; people asked me why I bothered, there's millions of starlings? But it's like I said to Sid, "A mate's a mate, right?"
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 10 May 2013, 12:19, 11 replies)

I don't get it. Is it Star Wars?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 10 May 2013, 12:24, closed)

(ling)

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 10 May 2013, 12:28, closed)

(tong iddle-i-PO!)

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 10 May 2013, 12:35, closed)

You mate with starlings?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 10 May 2013, 13:10, closed)

yiff in hell, furfag

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 10 May 2013, 13:22, closed)

You fed a bird chicken? You sick freak, you've probably given him mad cow disease or something.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 10 May 2013, 14:50, closed)

Lots of chickens are fed chickens.
Think on that next time you eat an egg.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 10 May 2013, 17:10, closed)

What the unfertilized ova that the poor wee birdy has pushed out of it's clacker?

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 11 May 2013, 0:19, closed)

Starlings aren't chickens.
You may as well have said,'You fed a rat a horse? You sick freak, you've probably given him mad cow disease or something.'
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 10 May 2013, 17:36, closed)

That certainly sounds like something I'd say

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 10 May 2013, 18:18, closed)

Doesn't mad cow disease come from cows?
I admit I may have given him mad duck disease, me sick freak.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 10 May 2013, 20:47, closed)