Tuesday, July 01, 2003

....the story continues when in late May we were checking the babies and found that one of the youngest had something wrong with his eye. After cleaning it out with water and stressing out over not seeing the problem earlier we took it to the vet. We found out (later) that he had an infection brought on by something that it ingested. We had to go to the vet twice over the next two weeks to get the eye drained and also give him antibiotics twice a day.

The scary part came in the first week of June. We were scheduled to have our first "real" vacation in about 3 years and had to leave the birds with a friend. Here we are giving them to a friend who has to hand-feed one of the babies twice a day and check in on the other ones. Well, when we came back we had a bit of a shock as they were all out of the nest box, and all but two of them were able to fly around the room!! That just tells you how fast they grow when they are little!