For those of you that have been following my postings, you will know that at our birdfeeders we have seen a black-headed grosbeak wihich has a broken wing. He has wintered here with us, when instead he is supposed to have migrated to Latin America with his flock, so Cornell Ornithology tells us this is quite rare, and asked me to record the sightings in their database, which I have. Separately, we also have a squirrel with a broken leg, who visits our feeder, and at first it was really sad to see, but now that squirrel is doing much better. The fun thing is, in these videos below, the two of them are chowing down their breakfast together, and I am so happy each of them has made it through the winter. This seems like a fairy tale ending for two struggling creatures who now have turned the corner to better, sunnier days. HURRAY! It’s nice to see a story end right! As an aside, I had named the squirrel “Molly” – but now I can clearly see it’s a boy, so the new name for this Squirrel is “Malty”! Fyi, several earlier videos of Molly (now Malty) are posted so you can see how far the recovery of this inspirational squirrel has beem, and I think our grosbeak bird is doing much better too!
Here are some videos of our happy, busy bird feeder:
VIDEO 1: As shown below, this video starts with Malty the Squirrel eating and then he is, to his (and my) surprise, joined by our broken-winged black-headed grosbeak. You can see Malty give the bird a quick scolding for scaring him, but then they get down to the business of eating…and eating…and eating! What is GREAT to see in this first video is how well our broken legged squirrel can jump again, when he is surpised by the visit by the broken-winged bird:
VIDEO 2: A happy, contented continuation of the first video. All’s well that ends well! I’m so happy to see them doing so well, and to be so friendly together:
