Great story, JenEllen. I worked much of my life in a nature center and saw all the horrible things that happen to birds, squirrels and chipmunks, etc. that are "saved." I saw a human-raised squirrel drop close to a hundred feet from a branch onto a sidewalk when it was released to climb a tree for the first time. Not much fun to experience, especially with a group of little kids seeing the squirrel with blood gushing out of its nose and mouth, crawling off into the woods before anyone could catch it. It's a hard call, when you see a young or injured bird or animal. It's times like that when I remember the innocuous voice-over in the old Disney True Life Adventures about animals. As an animal was being eaten, they'd swing the camera to a field of flowers, and intone sanctimoniously, "Mother Nature has decreed.."