Thank you all for your encouraging comments, and for all the great work you do to help these birds in need. Compassion for a fellow creature raises us all to super-human status, if you ask me. I love seeing the great work you all try to do saving birds. REMEMBER: job one, is to put it back in the nest!! No one can raise the bird better than the parent bird. I never take a bird if there is a viable nest, or any way for the parent to feed it. Honestly, it is best to stay out of it, and let the parents do the work. I only intervene, when there is no nest, no parent, or if there is immediate urgent need to save the bird's life. Knowing when to help, and when NOT to help, is the hard decision we all make. Great vibes everyone, fly on! I can only help birds when my time allows, and my time only allows, when the bills are paid... :-( So if anyone has the means to help, consider donating to my campaign: www.gofundme.com/the-bird-expenses

I believe he wants to stay out and he is communicating with other birds or even calling out to his sibling. Great work!

I had a baby starling that fell from a nest which I couldn’t reach to return. He only had a little bit of feathers, much younger then your two. I bought a bird cage, and gave the baby a little bath bc he was covered in little mites. I made a nest using a bowl with a washcloth and paper towels that he would sleep in. At night I would bring the bird cage in and cover it, and in the morning I would bring the cage on my patio. He stayed in the cage for the majority of the day. There were a lot of predators. For food I soaked dry kitten food (protein) crushed up a tumbs (calcium) ground up some egg shell into a powder (calcium) and I would feed cut up grapes (the baby’s favorite) and I would give mealworms as well. I fed the bird about every twenty minutes to a half hour and used tweezers or half a straw which i cut to make a tiny spoon, or just my fingers. After the first week he had almost all his feathers and could jump around a little, halfway through the second week he was jumping up to the bars on the bird cage and really chirping, so much so that the mother heard him and started to feed him through the cage! I was able to record her feeding him while she would grab hold of the bars! After about the forth time she came and fed him in about a 45 minute period, I opened the door to the cage, and she took over from that point on. Every hour or so I would go out and check on him, and she would come by and be squawking at me and doing sort of like dive bombs at me! Lol so after that I just left them alone. Once the sun went down I would close the cage and cover it, but now I left it out on my patio. As soon as the sun started to come up, I’d go out and take the sheet off of the bird cage and open the door. I still fed him the first couple times in the morning, but only the grapes and mealworms, he jumped out and followed his mom and siblings on the third day of his mother feeding him. I watched them all for about a week in the yard, and then they were gone! I’m just glad that I could save him, bc his other two siblings who had first fell from the nest didn’t survive.

Biggest problem with feeding baby birds is that they get up high on a limb and expect to be fed - and you can't fly!

I love this whole series!

They really transformed in beautiful birds. I think you should be proud of yourself.

I am from finland and a week ago I found a "räkättirastas" (fieldfare? Turdus pilaris) wounded (bloody wound on his head) and just a few feathers 😅 no nest to be seen and he was in the middle of the road. Now I have him eating like crazy and almost at the point where these two were in the beginning 😁 he looks remarkably similar to these robins even tho he is a different type of bird 😊 I will have to start taking him out but it's harder for me because I have to drive to a safe location and do it there, because I live in an apartment that has playgrounds atc around it so I don't want to release him here 😊

I wanted to say, be careful, you're going to break you damn neck. Looks like you really got attached, well how couldn't? You've done a fine job but its not easy being a father knowing you have to let them go. You'er such a good man. Thank you for shearing this.

Thank you. I have one and your video helped.

Thank you so much for these vids - I’m on my first Robin rehab

Love your series! Thank you so much for posting these wonderful videos a few years back! Finding this documentary in 2020 really helps to give us COVID-19 home bound folks a LOT of smiles! God love you for being such a kind and compassionate human to our feathered friends!

lovely birds, Mike, you truly a bird saver.

This is adorable. I have three babies in my barn that about to open their eyes. The nest is crumbling and I may have to take them in. I'll keep an eye on them. Thanks for this great series.

He's calling you to come fly with him. Oh don't forget to bring the buffet lunch.

Such a beautiful slow adventure! Awesome, we need more of that and less extreme!

I was worried when I saw the cat... Not long ago me and my wife found a baby sparrow, she fed him for few days and when he began to fly we took it to our yard to see if we could find freedom. Later that day we found the poor little bird... without his head. It was horrific. We are not sure what could do that, but we suspect it was a cat from the neighborhood or maybe a bigger bird, as a crow or a grackle. We feel sorry and guilty we could not watch him all the time, it was a very cruel scene.

Man you do have a heart..🦜

4:30 he is saying "WANT MORE" "WANT MORE" "WANT MORE RIGHT NOW" 😂😂😂

Thanks for filming this!

These birds are too adorable!

Found a bird (initially thought robin, later found out pigeon baby)... so cold in the rainy floor..... It helped BEST if they are placed in a a dark room (ideally on a tray with fluffy soft old cotton cloths to keep them warm + a small plastic bottle filled with warm water and wrapped in cloth so they can snuggle up near its warmth) they fall asleep within 10-15 mins & can safely recover for 1 day and then regular day cycle, in a quite corner (like store room). Also ideal to feed them CERELAC liquid food with a 1-2 mm piercing in a glove/baloon streched onto a plastic bottle, then they open mouth & EASILY EAT AS MUCH AS THEY NEED (usually 5-10 ml in one go).... Good luck & take care 🕊👏🙏

Amazing Icant believed wow 😮 ❤😅

He’s back!! Yay!!!

BIRD DAD

I think you did an amazing job! The only thing that I really saw wrong was I think his time to go was long ago, but it is hard to leave the buggers once youve seen them grow up!

Your bird is so nice. I took care of a few robin's but in my case the entire robin community kicked in. The birds around my house apparently do not care if it's their baby or not, several cared for the babies but these robin's weren't as friendly. The next season another baby was in my area learning to fly and one of those babies i helped out all grown up attacked me. I'll admit i was kind of proud of him butnot as nice as yours. I guess i never did carry any of them. I just fed them.

I feel like he is calling out for his sibling.

Just like my teenagers … I keep feeding them and they never want to leave home

Well, you lost me on this one. Climbing the tree and the bird running from you. I did see that cat so, danger. If I can give an idea, get a bird house. They obviously know where they eat yet, don't want to be trapped in a cage. The nurturing was so wonderful. I had found a bird the other morning and had no idea how to care for her. Took to sanctuary. That was my 3rd bird. Plus, I have a cat. But now I know, soaked cat food. Who knew. Big heart!

how can you know they will survive on their own once they fly away ? Like how they will know how to find food?

he was calling his dad to fly around too...

The first one to fly must have starved to death. Great series though!

Aww you'd think he would have learned how to fly back to the yard. Eventually they need to learn how to find their own bugs and worms. Poor bird didn't have parents but usually that's what teaches it when it's a fledgling.

That cat is on high alert.

les jeunes oiseaux c'est comme les être humains on ne les lâchent pas tant qu'ils ne savent pas se débrouiller tout seuls.

I’m sensing separation anxiety happening now lol. He’s ready to be on his own at this point so dad has to let him be.

They really get bras in and think they are good to go?!…better wait a good week!! Our robin came back and landed the following summer….on my dad after we raised him….bringing his new wife and scared my dad to death!! They are such a sweet bird!!….and they don’t forget!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

amazing

Oh, he's so cute when you feed him amongst the leaves. I think the cat food is not as healthy as nuts and seeds.

Oh no!!! hahahaha he came back! I thought the other video was the end of the rescue..Any way I love the videos, and still need to watch the rest

Think the robin wants to move out from the home, to go into a motel? Lol!

Where do wild bird parents find parasite-free worms?

enjoyed the vids. Thankyou for your kind heart! I feed wild Robins for about 4 yrs now yr round. I see the precious interaction between parents and fledglings every spring and summer. When do run the risk of them imprinting?

I think he got a little to attached to the second one

You should have grown wings so you could reach them and become the new mommy..

Should always leave them a bird feeder so they’ll be around

how on earth did you get the cat to not bother them?

Hey Mike, I have a question. A baby robin fell out of the nest and my dog was messing with it. The nest is under my deck so I gently picked him up and put him back in the nest. I started searching the yard for a second bird when I started feeling tickling up my arms. There were little bugs!!!! I flipped out and ran into the house and washed my arms all the way up to my shoulders. What were these bugs and should I be worried?

1229+done ,that's good ,so like ,stay connected

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4:28 someone is very hungry 😅

I am often asked what to feed an abandoned baby bird. In this new video, I explain what, how, and when to feed an orphaned nestling. Good luck in your rescuing! And remember, only get involved when there are no parent birds tending to their little one. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibmFgbx8rZvXqH0.html

Cute 😀😘😘😘

@Mike could you please tell me what kind of camera you have.?

@DavidGleba me tooo!!!

Feed me, feed me ...

cat food, berries, seeds and worms...those must be some pretty stinky poo's coming from them lol

cat not too happy they eating all its food.

Cat is waiting to eat.

Нудно сначала дома приучить птенца к специальной кетке, чтобы в приррде он мог ориентироааться на неё.

So afraid a cat will get him!!…hard to get the worms in the mouth!!…you’ll miss him!!!

No cat attack? :(

Why did you not dig for worms so he knew where to source his food from? Don't get me wrong I think what you did was brilliant but maybe next time if this happenes you could dig for worms as the youngster grows so it knows where to find dinner.

I have to say good job…but…He should be left alone to live free outside now. And would you just give him the worm ;-;

its a female not a male

Lo voglio in italiano la traduzione italiano

Fucking cats..

Next time drink a red bull

first one died because you lwt it to early...

You must kill the worms . I kill a bird because that . The worm moved to the throat and suffocate him .

he eats worms alive. I don't know how you consider it cute.

Why are you Asking the Bird to come down when you want IT to be free

do you think you should have given them an outside nesting box somewhere up high rather than normalising them to walk on the ground?