Warning, nearly lost a baby poot :(

The chicks are just over 3 weeks now and are venturing a bit further from Star, she's also taking them into the wilder parts of the garden too.  One of the wild parts being round the pond.

Disaster happened, one fell in   I could hear the panic chirp and at first thought it had been left behind in the run.  Don't ask me why but I opened the window and looked straight down into the pond and there it was, paddling for it's life   OH ran out to get it, it didn't look good it was in shock, very cold and shaking uncontrollably

We brought it in, give it a gentle rub then a warm blow dry and I popped it down my top.  I could feel it shaking so out it came for another warm dry then back in again after a while it gave a few chirps, settled and chirped some more.

It spent a bit longer in my top before I took it out to check it over.  It started calling for mum and had a poo so I reckoned it was time to rejoin the family.

Baby poot now running around happily with all the others

Weld mesh over the pond, don't want that to happen again.

Phew! 

'Splash' (who could be a Lemon not a Lavender) stayed close to mum after the adventure

poor little splash - glad you were on hand to rescue him/her 

It's not just baby poots I have to watch out for, daughter no 3 has just arrived saying there's a hedgehog in the garden.  I was bit concerned because it daytime so went out to see what was going on and found one wet baby hog covered in pond weed 

Much as I want to help it, there's no way that's going down my top

hi we had a baby sparrow fall in the water butt the other day, again gave it a blow dry and put it under the lamp for a while, never thought of down the top ! flew away when I took it outside so should be ok the water butt is also now covered in wire mesh

Baby Splash is non the worse for it's adventure but Star has turned into Godzilla went to move a dopey straggler who'd been so busy excavating the Bliss in the big run it hadn't noticed the family had moved on, lots of panic chirping, running up and down and trying to get through the wire ensued.  I picked it up to return to distressed mum and got pecked and flapped at for my trouble :blink:  Star's a very good mum

The little hedgehog was fine although it was photographed to within an inch of it's life and everyone had to go and admire it, wee Evie insisted