I am no help, Bonnie. I have cared for baby birds that didn't make it, washed oil off birds that froze to death in the night in spite of our efforts, etc. Nature has this quality of inexorable indifference that is totally unsettling. Baby animals get eaten, by enemies, or in some cases by their own mothers. I have watched baby tigers eating two day old baby antelopes. Watching Nature at work is an antidote to warm fuzzy environmentalism -- there is this ominous machine out there which also knits together all this beauty. I have not the slightest idea what it means.

yours, Peter T.