Twin Squabs!

  We took a day off from VegaNation, our lovely vegan shop, (find us at www.veganation.co.uk )and were supposed to be meeting our vegan friend Chrissy and her son at a country park today but she emailed us an S.O.S.this morning asking for advice about a baby bird she'd found in her garden. We have a lot of experience of looking after different kinds of wildlife and used to work in an animal shelter that took in a lot of wildlife.
  Chrissy had found a baby bird on her lawn yesterday and had managed to perk it up a bit by giving it homemade rehydrating fluid and also homeopathic remedies. It survived the night, and when she looked on the internet she realised that it was a baby collared dove, which led her to believe that the parents might be about as there had always been collared doves in the garden. There was nest material on the ground and Chrissy assumed that the nest had collapsed and the baby had fallen out.
 Chrissy  put the baby bird into a hanging basket and then climbed up a step ladder carrying the baby in the basket to hang it up in the Leylandii tree where the nest seemed to have fallen from. When she got to the top of the stepladder she realised that the hook on the hanging basket wasn't big enough so she had to climb down again, enlarge the hook and climb back up again!  A bit later, she reported that two collared doves were now showing an interest in the basket and peering into it and when she peeped later, the baby

 looked settled and content so had obviously been fed.
  So that was that. Then a bit later Chrissy was hanging some washing on the line when she suddenly spotted the baby bird on the lawn again. She was horrified, and, not able to imagine how the baby had got out of the basket, was having awful visions of the parents having turfed the baby out of the nest. She picked up the baby, made sure it was ok and climbed up the ladder to put it back, only to discover that the baby was actually still in there and what she was holding was a second baby!
  She put the second baby in with the first and they settled down together. Even though they've each had a fall, they seem all right, and it's bound to be reassuring for them to be together. Baby pigeons and doves are such sweet little creatures; we have looked after quite a few of them ourselves over the years and we love them.
   Chrissy did really well, and because the squabs seemed settled in the basket, she was able to come with her little boy and meet us after all and the children had a run about and a paddle in the country park. When he got home from work, Chrissy's partner climbed up the ladder and managed to hook the hanging basket up higher in the tree to try and make sure it is safe from cats.
 As well as caring very much for animals, Chrissy  cares about humans too! Like us, Chrissy is an alternative health practitioner; she is a Herbalist,  Iridologist and a Reiki Master and has been helping keep the people of Cambridge healthy for over 15 years! And now she has two gorgeous twin squabs to keep an eye on!  Lots of positive thoughts for them and hoping that everything goes smoothly for them from now on. You can find Chrissy at www.natureworking.co.uk.