Friday, September 11, 2009

Goldie is gone...

We took good care of her, it isn't that she's dead. But we leave for holidays and so we couldn't just leave her in our home, wandering about, pooping wherever she liked. So we took her back to the Salthaven Bird Sanctuary.
Mr. Salt told us that they'll work at getting her flying. The kids and I did work at it. We'd take her outside and she would hop to the ground. We hold her high in the air and she'd just sit on your hand looking about. I even took to sorta "throwing" her into the air ~ she'd flutter to the ground...or if I got her high enough she'd land on the branch of a tree but wouldn't stay there.

Mr. Salt said that if she didn't fly, she'd probably just die in captivity. These birds are super-athletes and flying is just what they do. You never see a goldfinch on the ground. So, we'll call when we get back and if she's flown away, that'd be the good news.

The kids missed her for about the first five minutes and then moved on...we do leave for holidays so the excitement of that overshadowed the sadness, I guess. See ya when we get back!!

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