Saving a Baby Cardinal

My mom and I prevented a baby bird from becoming a pancake.

First, let me just say, my mom and I have been saving quite a few animals lately. Like that turtle I had told you about in an earlier post... Well, yesterday, we saved a baby cardinal!

We were getting out of the car in a parking lot, and we saw a mama cardinal feeding a baby. The mom flew away to find more food, and the baby bird was left there. He was getting pretty close to the road.

So after we ran the errand, we came out to the parking lot again and saw the baby bird IN THE ROAD.

We ran over to save him! I grabbed a stick and tried to make him jump onto it, but that wasn't working. We kept trying to save him, but he kept inching closer to the middle of the road...and cars were driving by! We guided him to the side, and in the process, a car started to stop. I looked at the car, and in it was my science teacher from last year, waving to me!

Somehow we got the baby bird into the grass where I was about two inches from stepping on another baby bird! I didn't see him right away! Luckily I didn't smash him...Anyway, as we were about to drive away, the baby that had been in the road was heading towards the road again! We did the same thing, said a prayer, and drove away, feeling great that we saved him!

The two baby birds we saw were way to young to be out of the nest. They still had bald spots under their feathers! But they were SO cute... Here is EXACTLY what he looked like:

SO CUTE!!!