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Help! Baby Wood Pigeon info needed!So two days ago we had the tree in our back garden chopped down not realising in the tree was a nest. After about an hour clearing up the mess we noticed a baby wood pigeon had obviously once lived in that tree and had no where to go.
Luckily after re decorating the house we had left some drawers outside, we placed kitchen towel and old clothes in it for the pigeon to keep warm, over the top of the drawer is a netted pop up washing basket. We have been syringe feeding him baby porridge and cereals mixed with warm water. I've been finding it very distressing to find the will power to prize open his beak and force feed him this but i have been doing so. I scattered some wild bird seeds in is drawer incase he feels the need to peck at them and i have left a slice of apple for the same reason. Water has been placed into a spoon and fed to him and he's been taking it very well. Today his yellow cotton wool looking feathers have been falling out, is this a good thing? he's also been walking around his area flapping his wings to maximun spread. is this also good? im thinking of going to the pet store to get some baby bird feed and bird milk. Any info to when they start feeding would be good. there are no rescue centres around that will take him in as he's classed as 'vermin' so i am hoping he will be able to fly and tend for himself when he is released. he has regular walks in the garden to get use to the outdoors. any advise would be great. thankyou 
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 Last edited by yammyloveskye; 29th April 2011 at 06:40 AM.
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this is another photo of the wood pigeon named ian
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Thank you for rescuing him. From the sound of it he is old enough to eat defrosted peas and corn, but a photo would help!. Give a few at a time to start with, gradually build up until his crop is squidgy so you can feel a good quantity of bits in it but they have room to move about in the crop as you touch it. With any luck he will start grabbing them out of your hands. Also, try putting a dish of small seed, like millet, near him and also a bowl of water, he may start to eat on his own then.
Which Castleford are you in? If in Yorkshire, you could try contacting Selby Animal Sanctuary, to see if they can raise him and release him with other juvenile woodies. They are in Scalm Lane, Hambleton, Selby. O8 9HZ Tele: (01757) 228216 BTW, at that age they sometimes will gape for you if you slide your fingers around the beak.
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...while all the time your dear full-throated pigeons will be heard, and the turtledove high in the elm will never bring her cooing to an end. (Virgil)
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Are you certain he is a woodie? I can see a suggestion of white at the bottom of one wing but the tail and the amber eyes look like a collared dove...might just be the camera. Is the white wing bar visible when he flaps his wings or when you stretch out the wing? If he is a woodie it will be.
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...while all the time your dear full-throated pigeons will be heard, and the turtledove high in the elm will never bring her cooing to an end. (Virgil)
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I'm finding it a pain to upload pictures but i think the best idea is to go to Selby, but with a tight schedule for now i will try the peas and the water
 any other advice?thankyou
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If it is a dove it will need less food than a woodie and it would probably be safer to keep it on Ready Brek made with warm water or pincjhes of soaked seed placed in its lower beak.
Hope you can get it to Selby, they can be hard to contact sometimes.
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...while all the time your dear full-throated pigeons will be heard, and the turtledove high in the elm will never bring her cooing to an end. (Virgil)
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Thankyou for all your help and support. He is deffinately a wood pigeon as we've seen his parents in the garden lots of times before the incident happened. This poor bird does not deserve to be locked up in a bloody drawer haha. I will pester selby untill they answer in the morning then we will drive him down and let him have a happy birdy life. We haven't got any ready brek, only my sons baby porridge and cereals. We've been letting him dip his beak into a small medicine spoon of water every hour and feeding occurs every time his crop is almost empty. You have been a great help and I'm sure 'ian' will thank you for it too.
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That my dear is a morning dove, unless you know for sure that the parents are going to take care of it, DO NOT JUST RELEASE HIM!! lol. really though, i recomend calling a wild bird rehab facility. They arent hard to find, just look them up online. I recently had a little one about the same age, they are really easy to harm from hand feeding. So be very careful. too bad you arent in az, i would taker the little fella.
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R.I.P Wilbur, fly high baby..
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It isn't a mourning dove...we don't have those in the UK! I wish we did, they are so beautiful!
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...while all the time your dear full-throated pigeons will be heard, and the turtledove high in the elm will never bring her cooing to an end. (Virgil)
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Hey guys, just a little message to say I contacted Selby this morning and they were bloody useless! I basically explained the situation and they told me that they were full. Do they not have enough room for a tiny woodie?! Anyway she told me to ring the RSPCA but as I've said before, they put the poor things down, we are struggling to keep up with the high demand of the bird but he is so lovely. We're buying frozen peas and will begin dropping them next to him to eat after being slightly cooked and cooled down.
Any idea if woodies can eat weetabix mixed with warm water? Thanks.
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Weetabix should be fine. Just warm up the peas in hot water, they don't need to be cooked. Slightly warm they are delicious!
Sorry about Selby!  Your area is pretty bad for wildlife rescue centres. Woodies are easy to hand rear, but if you get into trouble these might help: South Yorkshire Animal Rescue South Road Sheffield South Yorkshire England S6 3TD 01142349656 If they are not too busy with hedgehogs West Yorkshire Hedgehog Rescue might help but they a hedgehog rescue that sometimes gives temporary help to small birds if they do not have too many hedgehogs to care for (BTW, can you put out some water for the 'hogs? They are suffering with the drought!): This is the e-mail address. You could also try: Yorkshire Swan & Wildlife Rescue Hospital Stearsby Farm Brandsby Near York North Yorkshire YO61 4SH T: 07763424892
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...while all the time your dear full-throated pigeons will be heard, and the turtledove high in the elm will never bring her cooing to an end. (Virgil)
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Can you give me any information on bathing him? The cereal and porridge is all over the poor little mite and I guess he could do with washing himself. Also, any idea on how old he is? My estimate is two weeks. What age do they start pecking seeds and peas themself?
Thanks.
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He can probably start feeding himself a little now. Just leave a bowl of small seed near him.
If the food has hardened on his feathers then get some warm water with a little salt in it, moisten the hard bits and they should more or less dissolve and fall off. I use sterile saline from Boots because it is easier! How much does he weigh? Cynthia
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He is 125g, is this okay?
Tomorrow I will take him for a walk in the garden and I will drop seeds for him to peck up. Hopefully this will be some well needed training for future life. I washed him as you said and now he's perfectly clean with a belly full of weetabix, water and seed Thankyou for everything. He is coming along nicely!
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