Hello I am new to this forum and to birdwatching.
Five days ago, we found a fledgling Rook in our garden. We do have a lot of Rooks around as we are surrounded by big trees. At first we thought it was injured but then watched it and it was hopping around, so we assumed it was a fledgling. We have a dog, so we put the fledgling on our shed roof in the hope it’s parents would do something however it fell off the roof! Our dog has free rein in our garden as he’s small and uses a door flap, however we were worried about the rook so we put him on a lead to take him out. Every time we went outside what I assume were the Rook’s parents would screech and circle overhead and the fledgling would seek cover in bushes. I kept googling for information and we put some food out for it as the parents did not seem to be feeding it. Yesterday morning, my daughter went out to see how the bird was doing as we had started to see it as our little pet and unfortunately it died sitting in the last place we saw it last night. I was cold and wet last night and it hadn’t sought any cover. We are going to bury it, but we are confused about why it died and whether we did something wrong. Can anyone help?
Hi, I read on another post just a few days ago, the same question. Can't remember if it was rooks, ravens etc, but it there are too many chiicks in the nest they will evacuate one to make room, once that is done they will no longer look after that young one, so it will not be fed, and sadly will die. No, you did nothing wrong.
I found the post for you
community.rspb.org.uk/.../wanting-to-know-more-about-a-young-rook-that-died
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Thank you so much for this, very helpful. Glad we did nothing wrong. Nature is beautiful but brutal ️