Photos of Miracle
As promised, here are some photos of Miracle.
Miracle is a Noisy Myna. This is as opposed to an Indian Myna, which I would not have permitted into the house. The difference is that the Noisy Myna is a native bird. He is essentially a honey eater. Having no clue how to care for him, we visited a friend who rescued a baby NM 15 years ago. She has released him four times, but he just keeps coming back! His name is Billy, and if our visit today was anything to go by, he lives up to his ‘noisy’ reputation!
Anyway, Judy provided us with some baby myna tucker, together with feeding instructions and her phone number, just in case! We mixed up some powdery, bird foody type substance, with the intention of syringing it into his little beak, with not a lot of success. We tempted him with juicy meal worms, but he just wasn’t interested. He is a dear little thing, and he seems ok, but I’m really worried that he’s not going to make it. Mollie believes he was meant to come into our lives, and for her sake I hope she’s right, because she’s going to be devastated if she loses him.
When he gets older, he’ll be able to eat his worms all by himself. Yay to that! Judy also mixes up a batch of banana, strawberries, mango and peach for Billy. She chucks it all in the blender, and it kind of simulates the honey he would find in the wild. I don’t know why she just doesn’t give him honey, I forgot to ask! Billy is very spoilt. I’m not sure if Miracle will ever receive that level of luxury, but we’ll see!
It’s pouring with rain here at the moment, as it has done the last few days. I feel really unmotivated, but I’m going away for a week tomorrow for work, and I feel like I should be making an effort to do something with the Mol. No idea what! Maybe a drive, and some photo-taking with the new camera she got for Christmas. We’ll see.
good luck!! see if you can get miracle to have a few drops of water..Use an eyedropper, once miracle takes even 1 or 2 drops of water its chances of survival will be that much greater..
best of luck..kim
Comment by kim — January 19, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Hope all is well with your little bird. Heck, your friends bird eats better than me! I wouldn’t mind that kinda smoothie!
Comment by Kelley — January 19, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
I hope Miracle makes it too -yeah that smoothie sounds delish.
I didn’t know NM lived that long wow.
Good on Mollie for making a difference - get her to check out Laura - I wrote a post about her today.
Comment by Babyamore (Trish) — January 20, 2008 @ 9:02 am
Oh Mollie, don’t get too attached, darling girl.
Hope Miracle makes it.
Comment by Tiffany — January 21, 2008 @ 7:54 pm