Poor Little Birdie

Just another little animal video I thought I'd share.

The other night the skies really opened up around here. We had little water spouts in the lake and trees were being blown over. I hadn't experiened wind like that for quite some time. There was quite a bit of lightning in the sky, and the clouds were swirling very fast and looked as if they may turn into a twister (which is relatively rare in these parts).

I was leaving work fairly late and I noticed this poor little fellow being blown around like a little tumbleweed. He must have been blown out of a nest and he was rolling around on the grass. It was a pathetic sight, and although I'm aware that we shouldn't touch baby birds because their mom's would reject them with human scent on them, I couldn't just leave this little guy to the cruel fate of being blown into the river. I picked him up and held him until the wind subsided enough so that he could stand on his own. He was in a state of shock. Happily enough, he lives in a little shoebox now, and my son and daughter feed him with an eyedropper and take him out to excersize during the day. He flaps about, and I'm sure that he will soon be flying. I think he's a red-winged blackbird.