Egg theif!

A few weeks back, my darling cat, Huggit, decided to steal a birds egg and run through our lounge, clutching it between her teeth. My 9yo daughter claimed the egg and decided she  would keep it warm in the airing cupboard. I explained that it wouldn't survive as the airing cupboard might be too warm, or not warm enough, for our little eggy friend. This didn't deter her at all.

7 days later, I was putting away the laundry and went to put towels in the airing cupboard. I was laughing away to myself thinking how funny it would be if our little eggy friend did hatch. I had the shock of my life when I picked the up the egg. I could feel the tiny birdy pecking away inside and had already managed to crack the outer shell.

Having already Googled baby birds, I knew that this birdy wouldn't have a chance if we tried to care for it ourselves, as they need feeding every 10-15 minutes. So I phoned around looking for somewhere that had experience in these situations. Eventually we found The British Wildlife Rescue Centre who said I could bring the egg there.

My daughter was so eggcited excited when I picked her up from school and she couldn't stop repeating how brilliant she was. I was very proud of her for giving this baby bird a chance. We then  drove 25 miles to the rescue centre who were shocked, as we all were, that the bird had survived so long but told me to phone back in 2 days and they would let us know what sort of bird it was.  

Just before we left for the Rescue Centre at 5pm 

Unfortunately, this is where the lovely part of story ends. We phoned back 2 days later and were told that our baby Pigeon had hatched at 12:30am but unfortunately didn't make it through the night. I was so sad to tell my daughter but I made sure that she knew how proud of her I was and that she had done such a lovely thing for the baby pigeon. We still can't believe that it survived 7 days in the airing cupboard. I just hope our cat stays away from bird nests in the future!