I don't think I have ever doubted in my life that God truly puts these little needy creature's in my path....but, after finding and rescuing Zoie...I know for sure now that I never will.  I know it must seem like I am out there looking for these babies...BUT...

 "I AM NOT"...they just 'somehow' appear in my life!

 

O.K. Well....I had to have a dead Pine Tree cut down several days before.  The guy's told me they would be back to grind the stump as well as the other 2 that have been in my back yard since first moving here and having to have them cut down also. They said they would call and let me know what day they were coming.

Last Wednesday I was having a lot of my 'chronic' feet and ankle pain as well as my wrist was hurting so badly...and ALL I could think about was finally getting to the end of the day where I could put the medicine and patches on my painful feet and wrist and just lay down. SO...it was 'FINALLY' 5:00 and I had gone all I could go and started to go do just that...when the phone rang and it was the guy's coming to grind the stumps....NOW! SO...I hurried and got the gates open and the hoses picked up and made sure everything was out of their way because they would have to drive into the yard with their machine. I walked outside the front door to get that done and I heard a little bird chirping....it was a loud chirp and I thought to myself...well that Mama Bird has got her hands full...she has a little cry baby for sure. The guy's came and did their stump grinding jobs and they parked one of their trucks in my driveway close to the sidewalk and left it there the whole time they were here and then they stayed quite awhile talking and I guess planning their next job! I walked back out the front door to give them their check and I heard the baby bird still chirping...and crying...So I started to look for it. It sounded like it was in my front flower bed in the shrubs. I searched and looked and couldn't find it. It would be quiet for just a few minutes and then it would chirp again. SO...I was determined that it's parents knew where it was and that they were probably coming to feed it.....but with the Tree guy's having been in the way for at least an hour... that baby was ready for it's Mom!  I looked one more time and didn't find it and decided after I got my 'feet' dealt with I would come back out and see if I could hear it again. SO...I went back inside and got ready to 'wrap' with my feet and ankles and lay down for a little while. All of the sudden I heard a Weedeater buzzing!!!!! I opened the front door and Wendell was here to mow the yard. Wendell doesn't mow my yard on Wednesday's he mows on Thursdays! I guess he just needed to come do it that day instead!! I could hear the baby chirping loudly again...off and on...and then constant while I was checking on Wendell. I started looking for it again....couldn't find it anywhere. I have tall thorny shrubs that grow on the wall of the house (Pyracanthia) (sp) and I thought maybe it was caught in that or that it was under them so.....I did my best to pull that away and apart and looked and looked but couldn't find it...all the time it was chirping and crying. I knew that I had to wait to try to 'flush' it out until Wendell was through mowing for fear it might be injured and something would go wrong with that. So...once Wendell made it into the back yard I stood and listened for it...and then decided it might be in the gutters or the down spout or maybe in the Attic and I was hearing it through the vents up under the eve of the house. I had watered that whole front flower bed earlier and it was wet..wet...wet! Wendell finished mowing and I stood there on the sidewalk and talked to him..and I could hear this little faint chirp...cry...chirp cry. I told Wendell I was pretty sure it was a baby bird that was calling for it's Mom and that I was going to find it no matter what! SO...Wendell left and I was standing on the sidewalk and the baby started crying louder and louder and constant! I went to the Garage and got a ladder and put it in the flower bed...cramming it around in the wet dirt to get it level to get up and look in the gutters. WELL........I was about 6 inches too short from seeing in the gutter...so I started feeling around and pulling out the junk and trying to get the courage to get up on the very top cap of the ladder! TO my luck and gratitude my neighbor saw me...and I think he thought Oh Geez..I better go help that 'Old Woman' now before I am the one who has to go pick her up in pieces and call 911.....:)  I think he thought I was cleaning out my gutters because he came flying over and said...."Can I do that for YOU"?????  I was thrilled he offered and I told him I was looking for a baby bird that I had now been hearing for over 2 hours and it was getting louder and constant.

SO...he looked in the gutter and looked in the shrubs and all the while that little tiny baby was crying and chirping constantly. I started in the garage to get some tools and a powerful light that I had and I was ready to spotlight the entire flower bed and take the down spout off of the gutter as well as pull down the attic door in the garage and leave it open...when he yelled out..."HERE IT IS"!!!!!!!  It was in the flower bed on the wet flooded ground up under one of the Hosta plants and about ONE INCH away from where I sat the ladder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The baby was sitting there with her little beak opening off and on and crying and chirping so loudly. I grabbed her up and thanked my neighbor and took her into the Garage and looked her over and the crisis care began! She was so scared but so desperate for food and care that she didn't try to fight me or fly out of my hands. She looked perfect, healthy and whole....and just like a tiny miniature Nemo.

I placed her in a cage and mixed formula and stuff for her and had to open her little beak to get the syringe/bottle in...she was so scared of that. I got her in a quiet place and feed her again and she settled down for a little while. I went back outside and looked and looked for her nest, tree, and Parents. It was already getting dark...and I could not find any sign of where she came from. The only trees I have in my yard are the 75+feet Pine Trees! I knew I was going to have to keep her all night and see if I could find her place and parents the next morning....but needless to say...'Zoie' and I had no luck.

I really think what happen was just a chain of unfortunate events in what was probably the first day for her out of the nest....maybe even the first few hours that her parents had brought their babies out. The Tree/Stump guy's driving up and doing all of that kind of loud work and parking in the driveway very close to the flower bed.......then Wendell coming right behind them trimming and mowing and blowing. All of that had gone on for at least a couple of hours and I don't think the parents could get to her...and they probably had the other ones all scattered around so....She was just lost. I tried the next day and I continue to look for her parents and sibling in the front as well as in the back yard. I wouldn't know which ones they were and I have taken her out there and she chirps...but her parents haven't answered her....guess that excepted that they lost this baby. I could not take a chance to leave her out there for one of the bigger birds to pick on.. and.. she is still being fed and doesn't know how to eat the seeds yet. So....I know God placed her in my path...and that path leads back here to the Cracked Egg Zoo...where our little Zoie will now live with the rest US! She is precious and she will be Nemo's buddy...and another one of my 'Kid's...........:)