Baby birds rescued in Creggan
Published: July 11, 2007
Derry woman Elaine McIntyre wasn’t expecting to have four new lodgers at her home on Sunday night, but when her nephew Sean found four baby birds abandoned in an alleyway in Creggan she couldn’t resist taking them into her home to help nurse them back to health.
Two of the baby birds were already dead but 12 years-old Sean gently lifted the other four and put them into a bird box which was lying nearby and brought them home.
His aunt Elaine, an animal lover, has since been syringe feeding the birds and yesterday when the ‘Journal’ visited her Malin Gardens home the birds were beginning to thrive and were chirping happily.
The birds are so small all four of them fit neatly into the palm of Elaine’s hand.
“We
believe the bird box was stolen from someone’s garden,” said Elaine.
“Then it was just chucked in the alleyway. I’m just glad Sean lifted the birds when he did, otherwise they would probably be dead.
“The mother bird wasn’t anywhere around so we think she’s been scared off.”
Home for the birds is now a cardboard box in Elaine’s living room where she is feeding them milk using a syringe.
“They were very traumatised and weak,” said Elaine.
“But I think today they’ve started to feel a little safer.
“They’ve been taking the milk and started to cheep. I leave the window open a little bit so they can hear the other birds in my garden.
“My hope is for them to get well. Then I’ll be able to let them go.
“They aren’t flying yet but they are flapping their wings and can jump.
“I’m trying not to get attached to them because they are wild birds and they’ll have to be set free.”
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