Just Hit
Roadside turtle waits
I run as fast as I can
Too late for this one.
posted by Julie Zickefoose @ 6:18 AM
7 comments
Julie Zickefoose
I'm an artist and writer who lives in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio. With this blog, I hope to show what happens when you make room in your life, every day, for the things that bring you joy. Strange...most of them are free.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Roadside turtle waits
I run as fast as I can
Too late for this one.
About Me
- Name: Julie Zickefoose
Writer, naturalist, NPR commentator,watercolor painter, gardener, emphatic Leo. I live with my husband, two kids, crochety macaw and Boston terrier on 80 acres of Appalachian woodland.
7 Comments:
That is just tooo sad! I have yet to see a box turtle this year and am gnashing my teeth right now because some moron hit that one! If I can miss a chipmonk at 40 mph without killing myself, the ground hackey, or another motorist why couldn't that idiot miss a slow moving turtle???
Arrggghh!
Where cars, humans, and animals intersect, it often doesn't work out well for the animal. Some of us see animals that need protection, others see a target. Eye of the beholder.
To Anonymous, who found a baby thrasher and commented SOMEWHERE on my blog: Soak dog chow in microwave until consistency of yogurt. Kitten chow is actually best. Administer in child's medicine syringe. Needs to be fed every half hour. 1/2 teaspoon per squirt, as many as 3 squirts per feeding. Scrambled egg is a good emergency food too. Mealworms work, given in a forceps or tweezers. Keep it warm, hot water bottle in towel next to it. If it's too cold it can't eat. and won't gape.
Go to Google.com and type in your location and "songbird rehabilitator" and see what comes up. Keep trying until you find someone who knows what they're doing. Best of luck, hope you find this,
Julie
I see painted turtles and snapping turtles smashed on the roads around here often, and that's bad enough. In a weird way, I'm glad we don't have many (if any) box turtles, because seeing one cracked like a nut on the highway would break my heart.
Found your response - thanks so much for info. Its eating like crazy (mashed banana and milk soaked bread), but will switch to egg and cat food.
We don't think it is a real young baby - it has feathers and attempts to fly - it eats quickly and chirps. it can perch on our finger and has stopped flipping over backwards when we feed it. It is calm and likes to be held. will do more research.
PROTEIN! NOW! Live insects! No more bread or fruit! A young songbird will never survive on carbs as found in banana and bread. The flipping over suggests a neuro problem. If you cannot return it to its parents, please seek an experienced rehabilitator for this bird (see previous comment). It's illegal to raise a wild bird without the proper state and Federal permits.
ALSO: If the parent thrashers dove on you when you picked it up, and it's trying to fly, you should immediately try to return it to its family--you may have abducted it when it was fledging normally. Please look and listen for the adult thrashers and
realize that hopping on the ground is a normal part of most fledglings' introduction to the world. It is best off being raised by its parents in the companyof its siblings. Please go out and try to find them!
I'm glad you found my comment. I've no way of finding people who comment on an old or archived entry. Good luck!
JZ
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