Thank you for the many responses regarding my stupored feathered YOY "teen". I learned about the golden valley rehabilitation potential which brings convenience to my love for birds - since I live in maple grove. I have been to the St. Paul campus center but the need for at least an hour or more in my busy life limits that as a possibility.
The final fate of the jay? I went to monitor mode with frequent binocular checks - wanting to avoid stressing it further with a capture fumbling. It's appearance indicated no visible physical damage. Since the earlier overnight weather released a record volume of rain but, as evidenced by my 3 a.m. gutter clearing, calm winds, I assumed the bird likely suffered from exposure and was riding the line between death and recovery on its own. My efforts to capture it in the early hours of my observations might have decided its fate in my human over eagerness. My observations over time revealed exponentially increasing motion and duration of open eyes. The birds location was in an increasingly sunny area and it appeared to bathe in the heat. I upped my observations in case the heat might add to its stress but found that after an hour or so in the morning sun, the bird moved itself to cooler digs. After about 4 hours of patient visual nursing and occasional panicked run outside to make sure it was visually responsive while still keeping a non-predatory distance, the bird finally recovered. Sometimes I apply my own recovery practices on my relationships in nature. I hope the bird realized that it was been protected in my distant care and could focus on recovery rather than fearing predation and the stress of survival. It has worked for me as I have learned to live in the moment and, based on results, so did the jay. Sometimes we just need to know we are not alone to continue to be magnificent in life. Of course I anthropomorphize, but I am human and such is my continual learning from nature, as of late, in the form of an adolescent jay. Grateful Thomas Maiello Maple grove Sent from my iPad ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
