Nestlings

A plethora of baby birds have graced our nursery in the past two weeks!

Sue from the Greenhouse found a baby mourning dove resting in a houseplant recently delivered from San Francisco. Heather and myself became its temporary caretakers and at first we thought it might have broken its wing because it was holding it in a funny manner. With the advice of Cyndee we decided to release it near a family of nesting doves.

I had heard from Anthony that there was a hummingbird nest somewhere on the grounds but neither of us knew where it was. Christian, our new intern from Germany came and showed us because he had seen them the other day and had never before seen a hummingbird.

Jo @Aldenlane

Impatient Kitten

This last tuesday a precious gift was delivered to our nursery in one of our regular plant delivers from Fredriks. A newborn grey tabby kitten was found by Jeff in an impatien hanging basket still on the delivery rack. This newly arrived fuzzy grey being still had his/her umbilical cord attached and had survived a 20+ mile journey in a cold delivery truck. He/she could fit into one hand and had not yet opened her/his eyes.

He/she was adopted into the Aldenlane family and was taken home by Jeff the first night. Anne has become her/his adopted mother and brings him/her to work every day. She/he has grown considerably and nurses from his/her bottle constantly. He/she definately has a strong will to survive, eating up everyones affection. Just today he/she opened his/her eyes for the first time.
Anne has still not found a name for him/her yet and many of us around here have come up with our own pet names for him/her.

I personally call her/him 'little Imp' (short for the impatiens he/she was found in).

Jo @Aldenlane