Dear Bizi - about the birds, as i understand it
 

not exactly.
that's the release part - it's supposed to be permanet - returning them to their natural environment once they are healed.
beaten as in the rescuers have to rush back in because the birds try to follow them. the food is given to distract them and give the rescuers enough time, hopefully to make it back in, minus birds.

even though they are free, some still come back and hang out on the roof of the rescue shelter... i guess they adapt quickly to the food and human contact during their sick period.

You got it!

blue car gal, does that mean you are one of the rescuers? that you were taking care of sick birds...I just go hide under a rock...
sigh
bizi

Awwww Bizi,

then we would have to come rescue you from under the rock, too. or try to throw you bread scraps to lure you out. ;):D Maybe some fresh sweet corn from IN would work better as a lure though huh? or shrimp and crabcakes :D:D but i'm sure the birds would compete with you for that!!! :eek: OUCH!

:heartthrob:

~ waves ~

Nothing so glamorous:rolleyes:. I scrub out bathing pools, feeding bowls, watering areas. I try to get into large cage areas without being outsmarted by little birds who plot escape. & sometimes I get to help release birds who are better & can go back into the "wild" environment. The medical staff hands the bird (carefully, we learn what parts to grab onto:winky:) to a volunteer who holds it while a second volunteer bands it on a leg. That done, said bird is handed on to a third volunteer (e.g., me!) who takes it to the water & tries to get back before the bird does. Food is usually the gimmick to keep the bird by the water.

Vets, often volunteering their time, do the actual care taking of sick birds.

You've got the same thing going on in your area I betcha;)!

thank you blue car gal for spelling it out for me.
Thank you for the work that you are doing. I am sure you like working as a team.:)
bizi

Blue car gal

You are so wrong, You are one of the team.

Whether you consider yourself one our not.

Just as some rescue dogs and other animals.

Donna


Derrick would want to thank you.

Donna:grouphug:

thinking of you tonight waves, hope you are sleeping peacefully tonight.
no more nitemares.....
bizi

not the kind where you wake up screaming or are being chased.

but i had disrupted sleep. very little in the night. then kept being woken up by parental chaos (= mom shouting at dad) in the morning until they went out.

then i dreamed that all the plants in the house were dead or dying, from the heart outwards... they were rotting... some were mom's and some were mine. one of them had a lot of leaves and i had started to take out the ill ones, and the whole plant fell apart. and i said to myself why couldn't you just leave it alone... now it was just leaves everywhere, dismembered. and then i thought, well but if it was rotten in the center, it was already dead anyway, it only had the semblance of being alive. so all i had done was reveal the illness, not cause it. and i looked at another of my plants that is in water, it had a lot more leaves than in real life, only i remembered that it had fewer leaves and wondered why suddenly it had more. i also wondered it i should continue to keep it because it never grows, it is also ill, as soon as it makes a new leaf, an older one falls off...

it wasn't a nightmare, exactly, but a very ugly poignant dream.

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that last thing, i have also wondered in real life, about this plant. it is a pothos... they usually grow fast and if you snip them they branch... when i lived on my own i had several flourishing ones in water vases just like this one. i think it is ill also, it is making deformed leaves.

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i also had other dreams that were disturbing but not as focused.

lots of people and meeting-like things and social interactions that were "busy" and disconcerting and vivid as i still remember distinct fragments even hours since waking.

one part was "my" room to which, however, a small child also had access. i never saw the child.

i remember before going to bed trying to fiddle with a radio in there (which i don't even have in real life) ... and not being able to tune the receiver so that there were no static... couldn't get a good signal no matter what.

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i feel yucky today.

I'm sorry you haven't been doing well Waves! :hug::hug::hug:

Decision making is difficult for me normally, but it's recently reached new heights. So frustrating... I hate it.

I never used to remember dreams (maybe from the sleep apnea), but sometimes I remember them now (maybe the trazodone). When I do, they're usually very bizarre- dog's head in the toilet bizarre!
I think the plant dream was about a fear of change, and the other was a manifestation about anxieties (social anxiety, worry over completing task(s)).

I hope you're feeling better soon! :hug::hug::hug:
Kay