The Bird Nanny

 The bird nanny you ask?  That would be me.  I am assistant to the Scrub Jay parents, in protecting their young.

Hey Baby!

Mainly I'm keeping the neighbors girl cat Gigi in the garage.  She's the huntress.  Not yet as fat or lazy as the other neighbors cats.  Not an easy task to keep her in.

Now instead of going out the garage door to dump my garbage and recycling, I go out the front, down the driveway and around.   Same with bringing in litter bags.  And anything else.  Including trapped cats.  Otherwise she's good at slipping out if I even crack the door.

Yes, I know, I'm on a break. But a local nonprofit asked me to help trap some kittens and adults in Lebanon.  So last two days I did just that.  Five kittens caught, five adults.  They took all the kittens.  When I delivered the three caught today to the foster lady for KKR, I sat inside her place and confessed I was suffering from inertia, and feared I would be unable to move from her couch.   I also told her and her daughter all I want to do lately is stare at cat videos on facebook for hours and also laugh my head off watching fail videos of all kinds on a strange channel that comes in over my antenna.  Finally I extricated myself, after I drank down two of their peach flavored soda waters, and....onward.

One of the five adults caught

Big Lynx Point male

That nonprofit had three spay neuter openings for three of the adults to be fixed tomorrow.  The other two will be fixed in Portland.  Yeah, road trip again with cats.

Lots of back and forths to Lebanon last two days, to pick up caught cats and kittens.   Naps inbetween trips.  Making up for all my failures to Gigi in the garage too.  Vet trip Wednesday for Clover, from the Lacomb colony, who has been ill since I met her almost 3 weeks ago now.   She's on anti herpes pills three times a day, eye meds three times a day and clavimox twice a day.   

Shelby shared this on her instagram.  She is fostering two of the five surviving newborns I took up to Portland a couple weeks ago from the Lacomb colony.  She is precious!

Clover, from the Lacomb colony, has a long road to health and wellness, but at least she's starting down it.  That right eye is ulcerated from her long standing herpes infection.  She's currently on antivirals, antibiotics and eye meds.

And the little birds out back.  I laid out a five gallon bucket on its side finally, three days ago, with straw in it, and it instantly was a big hit with the fledglings.   They dart in and out of it, perch on a couple pieces of wood, I laid out near it, like grown ups.  Their parents screech at me and pound their beaks against the fence to warn the babies when I am in the back yard.  "Really?" I protested.  "Seriously, I'm the only reason your precious offspring are even breathing still."  Ungrateful jays.  

Our weather lately has not been summer like.  Rain, gray, clouds....dreary!!!!