I pulled into the driveway one day this summer and sitting right next to me was a baby baby blue jay. He had obviously fallen out of his nest, but it was no where to be seen to put him back. He was too small to put back in the tree. Kids ran inside to ask Brian if they can keep him (they know my answer is always always “no way!”)

Brian is a sucker for these kinds of things, so just like that, we had a baby blue jay.

You wanna know how to feed a baby bird? Wet cat food, by hand.

Every few hours…

Somehow it became mostly Berkley’s (hence the name “Penguin”). So she was feeding this bird allll day!! Whenever anyone walked by his cage he would squawk and we would yell “Berkley! Penguin’s hungry!”

And every day she would take him outside for “flying lessons.” (aka, throwing him up in the air and me hoping this was the day he flew away!)

I honestly thought we would have him a day or two.

Oh no, this went on for weeks.

We finally bought a wire bird cage he could live outside full time (we had him in a soft butterfly cage and couldn’t leave him outside cause Mr Nubbers likes birds…). After he got moved outside I liked him more! 🙂

Pictures with Penguin during his “perch time” (he’s on the branch sticking out from the flower pot)

Then one day, over 2 weeks later, we took him outside and he flew (you can tell by our reactions we had done this many times before with no success!)!!

A minute after this HIS MOM CAME AND FED HIM!! It was crazy cool! Blue jay babies leave the nest, but then stay close in the tree for another few days/weeks while the momma keeps feeding them. Penguin fit perfectly back into his family!

THEN we saw him the next day and he came back to say hi and get a snack!