As the bird breeding season starts, Alison Warr and her family help rescue the birds nesting in her backyard. But due to many different factors, the chance of a nestling making it to adulthood is very low, so Warr does everything she can to try to help them survive.

“We have tried several times, if they are in a situation where we can’t put it back in the nest, and we’ve tried we have tried before, putting them back in the nest and they keep falling. And sometimes they will die cause its really hot, for example. Or the parents don’t feed them, usually they feed them when they are fledgelings, when they are starting to fly for you know, a day or two. And then they are on their own, because the next eggs are in the nest and they have to worry about that,” Warr said. 

The nestlings are able to fly away in a short period of time. Warr and her family were lucky enough to watch the process and how the nestling develops.

“The whole cycle from when they hatch to when they fly is less than three weeks. So we can kinda just assume, you know it wasn’t completely bald it had some hair and so it was more probably like a week and then we had it for 10 days before it flew away”, Warr said.

Warr took an interest in being able to connect with not only the birds but with nature. Warr and her family enjoy observing the birds, as well as teaching them how to survive in the wild.

“And then we would do activities, go outside so we could hear the bird calls and stuff and we would put it in the tree so it could learn how to balance, and then it would just practice flying just like going higher up in the tree. So we spent a lot of time doing that this summer. And then one day it just, we watched it fly, it was really sweet”, Warr said.