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Thread #135091   Message #3192220
Posted By: maeve
21-Jul-11 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Birdwatching 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching 2011
I'm glad you liked it, Adrien. There was some helpful information there.

Raptor might enjoy this: My Truelove and I opened up the yurt this morning so our carpenter could get to work on the stairway there. Fluttering around inside the dome was a young Red-breasted Nuthatch.

We set up the ladder (it's 20 feet to the base of the dome)and I hurried to find a net to safely scoop up the bird before he hurt himself. Our only net (for fishing) was too coarse, letting the little fellow slip right through the mesh, returning to the skylight that made false promises of escape.

Finally TL handed down the net, and the nuthatch landed on his forearm as TL held on to the ladder, and it stayed there as TL gently picked it up with his free hand and climbed down.

It was a short walk out to the suet feeders, where the nuthatch found himself released safely.

How'd it get inside? We're still waiting for the contractor to install the basement windows. Little buddy was out cruising the side of the yurt looking for food, and found its way in. Easier in than out!

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How are you doing, Raptor?