Has been sat on the fence for some 10 hours now, won't shift. Parents are trying to motivate it, but the local moggy has now spotted it !

What do I feed it ?

Was going to put an old shirt into a shoe-box, handle it wearing clean gloves, feed it, and then return it to the shed roof first thing AM.

Input requested !

dunx

 

Think the best advice is to let nature take its course, but it's hard watching a defenceless animal suffer. Have you searched the RSPB website or anything?

 

Save it before the cat gets it or if you have a pellet gun shoot the cat

Cats are horrible creatures they are out all day and night only come home to eat and sh%Te

 

I'd be inclined to leave it, but see the moggy off.

 

One hit our back window - had a bloody beak.

Wifey got me to call the vet (!) for advice.

She then put it in her cupped hands and took it out to the front......

As she got to the drive, the bird twitched.
She screamed.
Threw it up in the air.
It landed on the floor.
On it's head.
Funnily enough - wasn't overly animate after that.

Muppet.

But the vet said to let nature take its course.

 

Parents MAY abandon him/her if you take contact.... I tried the same as your original suggestion but it couldnt fly and I found it dead the following day on the patio floor.... Since then I try not to intravene with nature too much if it can be helped, apart from when I scooped up a dead rabbit off the road last week before the local fox got the same treatment trying to get his supper!!!

 

My sister saved a baby magpie years ago that had fallen out of its nest and couldnt fly, 21 years later and nature took its course and the magpie died, this could be the outcome of you saving the thrush!

Tony

 

Cool, I'd love pet Magpie! Did she keep it in a cage?

 

The cat will thank you in the long run for a good meal and your neighbours will thank you for their savings on cat food

 

Live yogurt or Canesten will sort out your thrush

 

I don't understand, can you please explain?

 

Bird numbers are down because people keep too many cats.

 

 

Prove it

 

Cats kill birds. If people did not keep house cats then they would not exist to kill said birds.

 

No f'kin way I'm letting that mangy soddin' cat eat it...

Just scooped it up, fed it some dog food, it's had a drink, and is in a box in the kitchem.

Just seems exhausted, it's certainly quite large.

Will deposit on the shed roof at dawn.

dunx

 

Well done, it will be back next year and it will shít on your car several times

 

This may be true, but it doesn't prove that bird numbers are down because people keep cats. All you are saying is that this is part of the natural cycle and not based or quoted on some scientific research that bird numbers are reduced because of the domestic ownership of cats.

If people didn't keep house cats then these cats would be in the wild, not being fed in the house and thus killing more birds to survive. So really, the domestic ownership of cats is helping increase the number of birds in the wild.

 

Right because house cats are indigenous to the British isle?

 

I'd keep it safe for longer. If it is exhausted it will need longer to recover I reckon.

 

Get some live meal worms. Birds love them

P.s. my cat's too thick to eat birds. He stares at them blankly...

 

Put it in a box, and put it outside where a cat/fox can't get to it, preferably high up. If the parents were close by they would be feeding it anyway. If you've handled it, they may abandon it anyway. Give it water. You can drip it into its beak.


http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpin...alth/faqs.aspx

 

Still waiting to see your source Tony

Besides, in these times of austerity the more wildlife that lands in my garden and doesn't take off again saves me a packet in cat food.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...d-bird-numbers

 

I see that there's been a decline in bird numbers, but I am failing to see where it says that this is all down to cats...

 

Thrushes are smashing creatures. As said try some meal worms and some water. d

 

Thanks, but I simply can't bring myself to view that liberal rag. That said, I'm pretty sure their "research" can't attribute the decrease in bird numbers to the domestic ownership of cats as you did in your earlier post.

 

Oh, the Guardian.......

 

Tell me, do you think that domestic cats increase bird numbers?

 

I did earlier - and you haven't answered my question