This baby GHO is the answer. Poor little BUMP fell out of a very old magpie nest that is disintegrating. The bad news is that it was about 15' high over the middle of a well packed dirt road. The good news is that he was spotted sitting there and rescued this morning. And luckily he wasn't broken. As the nest wasn't very high it would have been possible to get him back into it but I made the decision not to do that. His mom was sitting in it so it is assumed there is at least one more chick in the nest. Because it is so small the chances of BUMP falling out again would be high and the second time he might not be as lucky.
As you can see, he's right at home in his new "nest" made up of the top rings of a five gallon bucket filled with shavings and covered by long-leaf astroturf. Then I surrounded it with thick weeds and branches so he'd feel right at home. I don't know exactly how old this young bird is but he's probably at least two weeks from hatch. He'll stay here and live with the super foster dad, SEEDY, until ready for release back to the wild. He's in very good shape right now, you'll notice the mouse tail hanging out of his mouth. That was number two I fed him, he decided to wait on numbers three and four.
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