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Hello animal lovers and viewers. This is my first blog on blogger.com. Have you ever seen a Killdeer? It's a type of Plover. Killdeers live and nest on the ground. It's basically just a little carved hole with pebbles. Nothing special. But one day of July 2, 2009, exactly i week ago from today I incountered 4 speckeled eggs, and right away i knew they were Killdeer eggs. This was't the first time i incountered them. Last year i witnessed a car run over a mother Killdeer. I desided to take it in and the next morning. My mom drove it to Bird Center of Washtenaw County, Inc and a year later got a letter back saying it survived and now is set free to live her life as a mother. Unfortunately they are on a very low supply of mealworms so i'm going to donate 10 dollors to the cause.
Well anyway a hole mob of kids approached the speckeled eggs (names not said) they didn't know that below them there was a clutch of 4 eggs so blended in that they almost stepped on them.i had to cover them with my shoe so they wouldn't step on them. Of course they saw them. They picked them up and literally tosses one back and forth like a ball of catch, but with a hatching egg! They then handed it to two teen girls. They screamed and tossed them in the air like a hot potato. Finally I tryed to get it away from them. Instead they cracked the shell. although the baby chick was in the process of hatching! Well I didn't know that at the time. I thought it was dead when the egg shell cracked open when the chick was developing. I took it the cracked egg home. On the way I thought i heard a "cheep" and then thought:"naa just imagining things." Then i heard it again. Then i knew it was alive!! I took it home and told my mom. i said it was cheaping, but she said i was imagining it. So i put the egg in a shoe box with easter egg stuffing and a light over it. I went out to fetch warmer things for it. When i left my mom went to have a look at it.
When i came back my mom said... "go in your room, your Killdeer is cheeping." And i said
"Told you."
So i went in and it was cheeping like mad! It took me a half an hour to help the chick out of the egg. It sat there to dry off. My mom said go put the pore thing back. i took the shoe box and walked it back to the mother Killdeer. (Killdeers, if you touch them the mom will come back!) So they met and i just checked to see if the others were hatching as well. I looked at the eggs and sure enough small cracks in the egg told me they were hatching. I left and had happy dreams that night. In the morning i went back to the site. All hatched!. With Killdeer they are born with their eyes open because they spend 3 weeks in thier shells, one week more than birds like Robins and Sparrows. I counted them 4 babies and mine was covered in fur. i could tell becauseit had more fur then the others. This conludes this Blog. Join me next time at http://pawsforcauserescue.blogspot.com