This adorable robin—you know how I love any member of the thrush family—came in Monday after being found in someone’s back yard with no nest in sight. He’s matured rapidly and is ready for the flight pen next week, as is the mocker he’s currently housed with. No photos of the mocker; again this week we’re pretty much focusing on the new intakes and releases.
This first-year red shoulder was found by the roadside but given his emaciated state, I don’t think he was hit by car. He was starving on intake and despite frequent small meals that he kept down, he died just over 24 hours later. There’s a certain threshold and once they’re past that, all the efforts in the world just can’t pull them back, sadly.
The kingbird was also released after most of the week in the songbird flight, and she hung around for a couple of days but I haven’t seen her today.