“Look at the birds (sparrows) of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?” Matthew 6:26
A few weeks ago, Eric and I were driving home from somewhere. We were on the driveway heading to the house. All of a sudden….he stopped the car. He had seen something on the road. That “something” turned out to be a baby sparrow. It was just sitting there, by itself, in the middle of “nowhere” for a sparrow. There were’t any trees nearby for it to have fallen out of.
Eric, with his soft heart for birds, brought it home. Eric chewed up some worms and regurgitated them for the sparrow. NOT! He looked up baby sparrow care on the internet and made up some food. He was able to get the sparrow to eat. We brought it places with us if we were going to be gone past feeding time. It was so cute.
Isn't it cute?
We had the sparrow for a couple of days, until Eric found some additional information on the internet (Thank God for the internet). It said to put the sparrow out someplace where there are no preditors (good luck!) so the parents can find it and feed it because this sparrow was a fledgling and jumped the nest. So that’s what he did. Eric found a good spot and put it down. After he did this, it started churping, and about 3 or 4 birds of it’s kind started churping back. So we felt we did the right thing. The Lord watches out for even the sparrows. Another learning experience for the Craws.
Until next time…
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My sister Heidi adopted an abondonded baby sparrow a long time ago. She nursed it back to health and we started feeding it earthworms when it was older. Eventually we let it fly around outside and it would always come back (because we fed it). And one time it flew away and didn’t come back.
Thanks for the comment Melody. Neat story. Perhaps the sparrow found a mate?
jackie