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This further message from Ole in Denmark.

Dan Victor, Seattle, WA <dvictor at u.washington.edu>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:02:48 +0200
From: olp <olp at post5.tele.dk>

The day after, we had 28 mm of hard rain followed by stormy weather last
night and all day to-day. We are duly worried.

Two years ago, the last one of the fledgelings of Great Tits had problems,
too. He was really too weak to leave the nestbox, but jumped out. Hanne
knew how that would end, and picked him up and took him indoors. She fed
the Tit for two days with a mixture - she is a great chef for man and
beast -- and it grew and gained strengh. On the third day Hanne heard the
family of Tits coming thru the garden and she put him out in a tree. He
flew a couple of branches up and just sat there. After a couple of hours
he was still alone and started to call for food. More and more demanding.
No Tits around and what should Hanne do?

So she found a ladder, and standing on top of it, supported by our eldest,
head-shaking daughter - she fed the Tit by hand sitting in a tree! How is
that for imagining? But the story got a happy ending. The Tits came along
during the afternoon and made contact with the chick, now able to fly.

Hanne and Ole
olp at post5.tele.dk
Hillerod, Denmark