Hi All,  This is where my love affair with Birds began......

     This is me aged 5/6 with Ikie (the mistle Thrush) that we

rescued...    Sorry about the Pictures but we had a crappy Camera in the 1970's and the film kept slipping...

Here is a picture of Ikie with my sister Jilly

He was not with us for very long about 6 months from what I remember!!    He finally flew away to go and find Mrs Thrush.....   He only came back for a few days and then he went off and left me!!!

I can remember that us Kids had to go and dig up worms in garden for  Ikie to feed on!!!  then  we would put them in a bucket,  Ikie would back into the bucket then roll up and down the window sill eating them...

When we came home,  Ikie would be hopping up and down the back of the sofa - then when we came in the back door he would dive bomb us and land on the top of the cooker (we had one that had a small top oven and he would land on the top of the top oven....

I was devastated when he left us!!!  but he was off to a better life - he was wild and returned there......