Bunny Love

Today has been an interesting/nice day. Tinkerbell decided to go on a bird spree and caught three birds today. Two were saved and released successfully, but the third one we had to take out to the bird hospital. When mum had picked the bird up it one of it's legs was busted and bleeding. We didn't want to release it into the wild because we didn't want it to suffer or be caught by something else. I'm glad we took it to the hospital, they said that the bird had a broken leg, so they gave it some fluids, pain meds and put a splint on it. They're going to take it to a rehab centre where it can get better. That makes me feel good, because I know it wouldn't have sat easy with me if we just let it go. While we were at the bird hospital we met a very friendly cockatoo named Chloe and a giant Amazon (I think it was an Amazon) parrot named Alfie. Both such gorgeous birds and Chloe got angry every time we walked away from her. :P

After saving the bird mum and I went and had some nice diner food at Denny's. We also called around to a few ads we saw in the paper for rentals, so maybe something will come out of it.

This morning around 8:30 I was woken up to crashing and bouncing and flapping of kitties in the sun room. Tinkerbell had been bringing us birds (tiny ones) the past couple of days so I assumed it was one of those and I hoped I wasn't too late to save it. Both Moe and Tink were behind one of the curtains having fun with a bird, only it was a much larger bird then they normally like to play with. Somehow a Blue Jay (mum and I call them that even if they're technically a Steller's Jay) got into the house. Now I don't know if it came in because it was curious or because Tinkerbell chased it in, my guess would be the latter, but in any case this was not a tiny bird. I tried to catch it but the poor thing was just flapping around scared shitless. Finally it settled on top of a small lamp that is above our kitchen sink and proceeded to leer at everyone (can you blame it?). Tink tried to get it again but didn't have any luck so she lost interest, Moe just kept staring and trying to get up there so I had to wait until he felt the need to move along. After some minutes of waiting Moe lost interest and moved onto eating. The bird wasn't moving a muscle so I thought it may be hurt, but when I went up to it moved it's head to look at me. This following one sided conversation then proceeded:

Me: Okay, I'm just going to throw this tea towel over you. I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to help.
Jay: Bite me
Me: Okay, here we go. *grabs tea towel*
Jay: I dare you to try
Me: *freaks out* So I'm not going to throw this on you. Can I pick you up?
Jay: Hell no.
Me: *thinks*

Hell if I'm going to handle this thing, it could really hurt my hand with that sharp beak. After a few minutes of brain storming I get the broom and poke it with handle. That seemed to work. :D It flew out of the kitchen window and seemed fine, well except for being harassed by two cats and stuck in some strange house.

*watches orange cat the size of a small pony walk outside past the front of the sun room*

I swear to god my backyard is the crossroads/highway for everything not human. We even have sea gulls starting to hang around.