This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I went out to do the evening feeding. I loaded my tractor with usual 4 bales of hay and the extra grain for the mama's. I brought Lordalen in he was quite the frisky boy today. Then the rest of the youngsters all follow me along the fence. They absolutely adore the tractor . I got everyone out side fed and proceeded down the barn isle. I go so far and then move the tractor again. Just as I hoped down I saw a baby sparrow that must have fallen out of its nest. I went around to grab some hay and feed a couple of more horses and then looked back and could not find the baby bird, so I checked under the tractor and no bird. Drove a little farther down the isle stopped and got out to grab some more hay and there that little bird was in the bucket of my tractor! I pick it up and tried to set it on a bale of straw, but it would not get of my hand, so I decided to see if it would get on my shoulder and sure it hopped right on and went and cuddled up next to my neck, so I went about feeding. The little bird stayed there the whole time. I got back on the tractor and off we went. I Put the tractor up and went out to fill some water tanks the little bird still stuck on me. I got to my last water and all of a sudden the little bird stared to chirp! I heard another bird answer. It was the mamma and daddy theyflew in and landed on a near by tree and talked to the baby on my shoulder and he kept answering back and then all of a sudden he climbed out to the edge of my should and took flight! He just barely made it to the tree were his parents were.. And after all that I did not think that he could fly yet! Every year I have hundreds of babies born in my barn, mostly swallows and they always come back each year and it is very nice when they are here as I have no bugs at all in the barn ( the best fly control ever) I am a little concerned as what is happening in the environment as I have the fewest birds that I have ever seen in my barn. Is this happen to any of you as well? Bonnie Morris western Wa
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