One-legged robin…

Thursday, April 27th, 2006 at 10:09 am

There is a baby robin in our garden this year. This one is an extraordinary robin I have ever seen. He has the one and only leg. He looks healthy enough because he could fly properly. The reason I knew that he is still a baby because once I saw he was fed by his parent. At first I thought it was his mate until I saw the feeding part. Lately I sometimes saw him alone hopping around our bird feeding area. One day I found a small centipede while I was working in the garden I threw it to him not very far from me and he came to eat it. I took some of his photo but it does not look quite obvious about his leg. Actually he has 2 legs but the other leg seems not functional. I was quite worry about him because we have a sparrow hawk comes to our garden lately. I don’t mind if the sparrow hawk will come to eat some of the sparrows in my garden because it is part of the food chain but I always hope one-legged won’t be the one. The reason I worry about robin because sparrow hawk won’t only eat sparrows, last week I saw one beak and lots of feather. I could tell by the yellow beak and black feather that it was male black bird.

Today is very nice and sunny day. I just came back from morning walk with Pepper. Today we did not go to the football field. I took him down to the wood and played with the Frisbee for a while. Then I tried to reinforce the command SIT-STAY-COME with him. He was very good at that. Yesterday he slept in his crate almost all day after the morning walk. I came in to check him every so often but he was either on his back or his side and fast asleep.