Advice please !
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:52 pm
Good Evening,
I was hoping for some advice. I have been feeding the local birds in my (very small) garden for a couple of years now. Two nights ago, I found a pigeon standing just inside back door, it didn't move when I approached. Only when I got really close it walked off, it is clearly injured. At first I thought it had a broken wing - it retreated into my (open fronted) shed at the back. I made a kind of temporary shelter by moving some spare boards of wood.
The next morning when I checked on it and put some more food down, it tried to run and kept falling over face first, I am guessing it has done something fairly serious to itself. It survived that night and today seems more active, exploring my garden and sneaking out a little way through the gap left for the hedgehogs... but came back at night.
So it seems it is going to live, it is eating and drinking and capable of pottering around. I guess it is not going to fly again though. So I was hoping for some advice, obviously the best thing to do is take it to the vets - however I am unable to afford the standard vet costs. Is it worth me making a more permanent shelter at ground level ? If so, any dos and don'ts ? Since my garden is *really* small, is the wild seed & fat balls I put out enough for it ?
Or perhaps I am missing something more obvious to do ? Thank you for your time in reading this.
I was hoping for some advice. I have been feeding the local birds in my (very small) garden for a couple of years now. Two nights ago, I found a pigeon standing just inside back door, it didn't move when I approached. Only when I got really close it walked off, it is clearly injured. At first I thought it had a broken wing - it retreated into my (open fronted) shed at the back. I made a kind of temporary shelter by moving some spare boards of wood.
The next morning when I checked on it and put some more food down, it tried to run and kept falling over face first, I am guessing it has done something fairly serious to itself. It survived that night and today seems more active, exploring my garden and sneaking out a little way through the gap left for the hedgehogs... but came back at night.
So it seems it is going to live, it is eating and drinking and capable of pottering around. I guess it is not going to fly again though. So I was hoping for some advice, obviously the best thing to do is take it to the vets - however I am unable to afford the standard vet costs. Is it worth me making a more permanent shelter at ground level ? If so, any dos and don'ts ? Since my garden is *really* small, is the wild seed & fat balls I put out enough for it ?
Or perhaps I am missing something more obvious to do ? Thank you for your time in reading this.