Bird

Somehow they caught this bird..... and of course Jackson wanted to keep it. He has always wanted to keep every animal he catches - frogs, turtles, mice, birds - to the point of tears when we would tell him no. This time, though, he has a little more understanding for the wild and he was willing to let the bird go.

It might have been around this same time that there was an injured killdeer making it's way around the neighborhood. I heard stories of it from neighbor kids. Next thing I know Jackson has it. The poor bird had a broken wing and a leg barely hanging on at the top and unusable. He couldn't believe that no one had helped it and that they had turned it loose to die. I did not want to keep that poor bird around and have Jackson watch it suffer. He is so tender hearted and still cries, years later, over pets that we have lost. We live right by a bird refuge so I called to see if they could help and they gave me the number for an animal rehab center. We loaded up and took the bird there :)