<catbrier@fwiw.com> wrote:::
>
> >Curious, why you even bother?!
>
> Cats occasionally like to pester things.

Yeah, battered them around before they go for the jugular.
>
> >>One quess which cuckoo nest hatched this unlikely
> >> birdy.
> >
> >Speaking of birds....my mother bird who layed four eggs in my geranium
had
> >her babies hatch last week.  This is her second brood.  When I checked on
> >them today, one was out of the nest in the dirt.  It's wings looked like
> >worms and there were two black circles for eyes.  It is like they grow
into
> >their eyes.  Anyway, I pushed it back into the nest and a few hours later
it
> >was out again.  She doesn't want it.  I wish she wouldn't do that, I have
to
> >listen to it squawking and it is getting to me.
>
> If one of the chicks is deformed, the parents, usually the mother, will
throw it
> out of the nest - almost like a kind of sacrifice.

It does seem like the chick was deformed.  I felt bad for it, it died with
it's beak open.

>A nest of bluejays in a
tree
> adjecent to my house did that earlier this year.

I have so many birds nesting on my porch.  You think that should be telling
me something.

> They raised two healthy
chicks
> and tossed the defective third. The defective was recycled through the
> intestinal track of some wandering night scavenger. It's an extremely
economical
> system. The squawking is another thing. Fortunately for me - it lasted
only a
> day.

This one didn't want to die.  I felt so sad as I picked it up with a spoon
and buried it under the old maple.