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I said we already let it go, since we didn't know what to do and it was getting stressed. I wish we hadn't though, since it's unlikely we'll be able to find it again. Still, thank you for the advice.

It's getting colder here in Florida, anyone living in Florida or visiting should check out Blue Spring State Park in Orange City. No special equipment required, but on especially cold mornings after a cold night, there will be hundreds of wild manatees bumper to bumper staying warm in the 3/4 mile spring run.

I think our peek number last year was 300 something at once.

There is bunches of other animals you could see as well, especially if you get there in the early morning. Red fox, deer, alligators, occasionally wild pigs, sometimes bears, very seldom otters.

For any bird enthusiasts, I frequently see Osprey, Scrub Jays, Red Shoulder Hawks, and many different kinds of herons.

DracoKnight wrote:It's getting colder here in Florida, anyone living in Florida or visiting should check out Blue Spring State Park in Orange City. No special equipment required, but on especially cold mornings after a cold night, there will be hundreds of wild manatees bumper to bumper staying warm in the 3/4 mile spring run.

I think our peek number last year was 300 something at once.

There is bunches of other animals you could see as well, especially if you get there in the early morning. Red fox, deer, alligators, occasionally wild pigs, sometimes bears, very seldom otters.

For any bird enthusiasts, I frequently see Osprey, Scrub Jays, Red Shoulder Hawks, and many different kinds of herons.

Definitely gonna check it out one of these days!

FennecFyre wrote:I said we already let it go, since we didn't know what to do and it was getting stressed. I wish we hadn't though, since it's unlikely we'll be able to find it again. Still, thank you for the advice.

Mostly I was posting for future reference, and in case you were able to find it again.
Most likely, if you can't find it, it recovered well enough to fly away. A lot of times they get a knock to the noggin and just need to chill for a bit before they can make it on their own again.

Any idea what kind of bird it was?

TNHawke wrote:

FennecFyre wrote:I said we already let it go, since we didn't know what to do and it was getting stressed. I wish we hadn't though, since it's unlikely we'll be able to find it again. Still, thank you for the advice.

Mostly I was posting for future reference, and in case you were able to find it again.
Most likely, if you can't find it, it recovered well enough to fly away. A lot of times they get a knock to the noggin and just need to chill for a bit before they can make it on their own again.

Any idea what kind of bird it was?

We thought it was a sparrow but we're not sure. It was shades of brown and had a few stripes over it's eyes. Little bitty thing.

Once, when I was little, I came home from from school and found a bird of prey lying next to our toy wagon. It wasn't dead and was still fiesty (almost bit off my finger while I was feeding it raw hamburger lol). The next morning we called the bird shelter, sanctuary, whatever it's called and gave it to them. Turns out it was a prerigine falcon! And she was old and already dying when we found her because her wings were too weak to fly. She died 7 days after that

FennecFyre wrote:

TNHawke wrote:

FennecFyre wrote:I said we already let it go, since we didn't know what to do and it was getting stressed. I wish we hadn't though, since it's unlikely we'll be able to find it again. Still, thank you for the advice.

Mostly I was posting for future reference, and in case you were able to find it again.
Most likely, if you can't find it, it recovered well enough to fly away. A lot of times they get a knock to the noggin and just need to chill for a bit before they can make it on their own again.

Any idea what kind of bird it was?

We thought it was a sparrow but we're not sure. It was shades of brown and had a few stripes over it's eyes. Little bitty thing.

Sounds like a small sparrow to me.

We had a Robin fly into the front window once. Slammed into it while we were eating dinner and left a few tiny feathers on the window. It wasn't hurt though, just stunned. We kept it warm and safe, in a shoebox outside I think and It flew off a few hours later.
I remember being so sad that it had flown away because I hadn't gotten to stay goodbye to it/see it before it left (I was probably like, 4 at the time xD)

I'm lucky that my town is full of wildlife, it has woods all around and often wild animals come to the urban area, mainly bears, moose, raccoon, possums and squirrels, and sometimes wolves and foxes, the typical north american wildlife, in my backyard we have a garden, so bugs, butterflies and birds appear all the time, and next to our fence it starts the woods, and close to my house there's a waterfall, wild animals show up there all the time. we own some animals, two dogs, a labrador-husky (my favorite breed ever ), and a labrador retriever, my grandparents own many dogs, my parents own some horses too, and a friend of mine practices falconry, sometimes i feed and play with the falcons, there's a owl that made a nest near my room, it often comes near my window, sometimes i leave food outside and it eats everything ^^ and sometime ago i found a puppy fox in the woods, she was motherless and was apparently sick, we named her May because we found her in may, me and my sisters took care of her for a while and took her to the vet, then we gave her to the wildlife public agency and they reintroducted her to the wild

We have a bird feeder pole set up in the back yard with several feeders. We seem to attract a lot of Blue Jays (especially to the open square feeder when it's got peanuts in it. Jays love their peanuts), Nuthatches and Chickadees like the smaller seeds(and allegedly the suet feeder) and a few Woodpeckers have come to the suet feeder. I think all the Finches we get have gone south for the time being.
Also we lay leaves and brush around the base of the feeder, which attracts the Slate Coloured Juncos(mostly) and sometimes Sparrows, which we can occasionally see hopping around.
Of course, all this seed attracts squirrels as well(they eat what the birds fling to the ground since they can't get to the feeder) which in turn attracts the neighbourhood cats xD We're like the only house on the street with a bird feeder I'm sure.

Just outside the city we can see coyotes, deer, raccoon(actually we can find them in the city as well) and skunks.

Well, it's that time of the year. Migration. Almost time for the red breasted robins to come around and me to keep the cat in. They haven't shown up yet, but plenty of other birds have made their way past my neighborhood. I've never bothered to learn their species, I only looked up the robins because they tend to land all over my street specifically.