Wet orphan crow can't fly- will he be ok?

[Bella_F]

This morning I did my usual walk to find the little crow, to give him some food. He's usually in the park or somewhere near by, and I find him by following his cries.

We had some really heavy rain last night and this morning, and when I went looking for him it was still raining. I found him a little off course, crying loudly under a tree in a person's yard about a block away. He was *really* crying and obviously distressed. The windows of the house were open so I thought it would be rude to just throw food over the fence for the crow. So I called him and watched him for a while, and tried to coax him up onto the fence.

Then the lady from the house came out with a broom and started banging it loudly on the ground to scare it, and yelled at it to shoo it away. The little crow became really scared and distressed, and tried to fly away. But its wings are soaked and it couldn't get any elevation. It kind of tumbled & fluttered around crying out.

Anyway, I called out to the lady and told her all about the crow, where it lives, and how it doesn't have any parents and it needs to be fed. She and her husband, though not bird lovers, were ok with that and invited me around to feed it. I stayed in their yard as long as I could without being impolite, gave him some food, and told them that he'll probably flutter around their yard and cry until he's dry again. They seemed ok about it, a bit coolish, but ok.

Its stopped raining now; do you think he'll dry off enough to fly again soon? He's trying to get up to the top of a bin, which would allow him to get onto the lower branches of a big tree. He'll be right if can make it to those branches, but when I left him he couldn't even flutter to the top of the bin.

Any ideas? Of course I've thought about catching him, but theres no cats or dogs around and he's not in immediate danger, he just needs to dry off. I don't know long that will take though...