Question: When Is A Broken Wing Actually A Lucky Thing?

Answer: When the pigeon has such a bad case of canker that it would have starved to death in another day or two.

It's been a really strange past week for rescues including this pigeon that flew into a utility pole at warp speed on Tuesday afternoon. The rescuer realized that the wing had been broken and brought the bird in and cared for it until he could drop it off to me at my work on Wednesday. This poor bird has a very advanced case of canker, pigeon flies galore, AND a badly broken wing. I know I can eradicate the bugs, can probably get the canker resolved, and maybe even fix the wing well enough that the bird will fly again.
All in all, it WAS a lucky thing that this bird suffered a broken wing, was rescued, and now has a chance to overcome what would have been insurmountable problems for it in the wild.

On Tuesday morning I was returning home from running a few errands only to spot a tiny, white rabbit nibbling grass near the curb of a busy intersection which leads into my neighborhood. Though I was definitely thinking "Why me?", I stopped and easily caught the little bunny. It is dirty and emaciated, doesn't really recognize rabbit pellets as food yet (though it is slowly catching on), but is such a sweet little thing.

Then later in the day Euclid arrived .. a not quite fledged young pigeon that had fallen from a nest on an overpass of Euclid St. in Fullerton CA. Euclid St. in this area is an insanely busy thoroughfare, and the baby would have surely been run over if not for two very kindly ladies who came to the rescue. Euclid is starting to peck at seeds but is still a hand feeding baby and appears to have a slightly injured leg. Little Euclid was poop encrusted on the underside, and we're slowly working at getting all that off. It is a precious little thing.

Still later in the day a fellow duck rescue person called to see if I could take two fledgling birds that she had found at the duck pond at the Civic Center in Garden Grove. She didn't know what they were, and her description of them left me wondering what the "mystery" babies would be. She told me that there had been 6 of these babies and that four of them had been killed and partially eaten as had a white rabbit that had apparently been dumped at the same time.

So, the duck lady arrives Tuesday evening with two adult Japanese Coturnix Quail. I'm not sure what made her think these were fledglings of some type, but she did. While quail are usually quite hyper, these two are very tame and friendly and seem to be quite content to snuggle and snooze together when not being waited upon by me.

Three ducks will be going to a wonderful home tomorrow. A nice young lady who is a vet tech in my area had adopted two ducks from me last summer and called the other day to see if I had another two .. we ended up with her being willing to adopt three after hearing the stories of how I came to have them. I will be dropping them off to her tomorrow.

Well, that's the latest from this neck of the woods.

I'm really hoping the next few days will be slow for incoming as I have tons of things I need to do, but I guess we shall see.

Terry