We were in the vets today making an appointment for Eldo's snip. We got talking to the vets wife who is also the receptionist. We told her about our baby kestrels high in a nest in our gite wall.
She had a better tale to tell.
Last week a man arrived with a cage, inside was a baby owl he had found on a post by the roadside. Not just any old owl but a " Grand Duc" an Eagle owl, the biggest owl of all. The man had seen it on the post and as it could not fly and he thought it was abandonned had performed he thought a rescue!!!!
Owls, like kestrels, when fledged take two days before they can fly properly; they tend to choose a perch and parents continue to come and feed as they would have done in the nest. In the two days the fledglings test and stretch their wings till their flying skills come in to their own.
It is not too sad a story as the vet quickly phoned the LPO, the society here for birds; the young owl was quickly taken off to be fed and caged for a few days till it could be released.
The morale here is leave any young bird that you think is in trouble; its parents know where it is and are busy foraging to feed it and its brothers and sisters.
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