Well now I ve got a dilemma

I am, as my dds would say, so invested in this story, Bluebell! I woke early this morning and heard a pigeon and immediately thought of Stephen Sebastian.

From your latest photos, he looks as though he’s grown - well done!

Bluebell I just found this video about someone in a similar situation to you, but they had a Kevin. I hope you have no holidays booked for the next 40 days or so. (chance would be a fine thing). I think they also like dog and cat food. What a great thing you are doing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7CK5kj8UQ

We’re all enjoying this saga * BlueB*? I would do the same,
I know we can’t intervene all the time, but in this case, if you feed him he will build up strength to fly soon.Your next project is to make him a faux nest to sleep on.....newspaper?

Stephen Sebastian has adopted you, Bluebelle.
You're his new Mum.

Haha, I wouldn't know what to look for! Isn't their anatomy rather different from ours?

It’s funny Bathsheba I m not that much of an animal or bird person but I can’t bear seeing one in trouble without trying to fix it ...it doesn’t always work fingers crossed for this chap (or to be fair chapess, and I m not looking?)

I'm late to this thread, and have so enjoyed reading through. BlueBelle you are a true superhero, well done! Stephen Sebastian certainly fell down the right chimney, didn't he? Straight into your loving heart. It could have ended so differently with someone else's chimney! Thank you for starting my day with a smile and a nice warm melty feeling in my heart

(If you ever feel the urge to change your username, you might want to consider BirdWoman )

Oh thank goodness, I was hoping he'd be ok. What a sweetie. So pleased, well done BlueBelle.

He's having no trouble gobbling the cat food!

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Stephen has weathered the night I didn’t hear any crying and he was waiting by my back doorstep when I got up she’s now munching some mashed up cat food Yay I feel more hopeful

I hadn't caught up with part 2 of the Stephen Sebastian Seagull Saga, Bluebelle.
How lucky you were there and he's eating the sardines. However, sardines have been out of stock on our supermarket website.
Cat food sounds fine and apparently plain cooked spaghetti is good too.

I think you’ve a job for life, Bluebell! What a pampered chick! ?

I think we're all wishing so hard that you'll be able to give him a smile and wave him off on his new life in the very near future. In the meantime, you must promise yourself that you will never look up any chimneys again - unless it's Christmas Eve !

Yes grandmafrench I ll get some more sardines tomorrow they seem to be going down very well He’s had some cat food tonight and managed it well, he’s able to eat off the ground
I m guessing he’s about a month old so needs a couple more weeks before his feathers will start coming through
I could kick myself for not putting him in my garden yesterday but I was thinking the mum would see him on the flat roof but he ll be warmer and safer on the ground I ve put a dish of water out so fingers crossed
he’s fast and has a strong peck I m just hoping no cats visit but I think his mums watching over him too so hopefully she would dive bomb a cat
Fingers crossed

He wouldn't be able to feed himself from a dish - at this age his Mum would be pushing her food down his throat for him. Obviously he's growing at a rate so needs regular feeding. Since he's possibly a herring gull, he looks big but is still a chick, has no flight feathers and is still quite fluffy, so normally wouldn't have fledged yet. When they fall off the nest, they're a nightmare. So far he seems to have used up a lot of his lives, so thank heavens he has you, BlueBelle. Your poor nerves must be worn to threads! Keep feeding stuff very smashed up, like fishy cat food or something well soaked (like cat biscuits) which he can easily manage, from the ground or pushed onto his tongue if he opens his beak for you. If he has a safe place to hide, his Mum will watch him almost all of the time and hopefully attack anything which threatens him. As long as he keeps off the road - where she couldn't protect him - little Stephen will soon be able to fly....and you can relax. Well done for your kind fostering ! Lovely story.

No he didn’t seem keen or maybe able to eat of a dish so I was just throwing chunks by his feet for him to shovel up I m going to look up what else they can eat I think cat food and
I m not sure how regularly I m not giving him too much as I m hoping mum is still going to feed him and visit him my gardens only small and enclosed with lots of greenery so hopefully he ll find somewhere to hide and keep dry

Oh well done to you BlueBelle. Pretty" heart in the mouth " at times but overall very heart-warming.

Seagulls are a protected bird and are really beautiful when the adults land in the garden, huge too. As Glammanana said, being on the doorstep of the Mersey river their cries are a familiar sound and I'd miss it if I didn't live here.

You're a good egg Bluebelle! Brightened my day no end, thank you.

Wow! He's a lucky bird, having you around BlueBell. Well and the driver who slowed down.

How does he feed? Do you just put the sardines in a dish in front of him?

I think his mum is beginning to realise you mean him no harm, dont you?

Well there’s more ...that animal deserves to live he’s got 9 lives
I was worried about him last night as I could hear him crying as I went to sleep but I could also hear his mum calling back so guessed that she would keep feeding him even if he hadn’t a nest to sleep in However when I cane back from work today (yay I ve started back today) he was in the front garden of my neighbours still calling... again I wasn’t too worried as I could see mum on my roof calling back very loudly so I tried to forget about him, a little while later I looked out my window as I heard him crying again and there walking down the middle of the road with a car driving very slowly behind him was Stephen I grabbed a towel ran out threw it over him thank goodness it covered him so I grabbed him and he’s now eaten another tin of sardines and is in my enclosed garden which without flying he shouldn’t be able to get out of so I ll just keep feeding him each day there’s loads of greenery for him to hide under to keep sheltered and his mum who was watching me grab him is on my roof (I m so lucky she didn’t dive bomb me) I should have put him there instead of on the flat roof In the first place but I was thinking of putting him where the mum would see him
Anyway thats chapter 2 hopefully he ll start to fly in a week or two I ll try and get another photo tomorrow

Eek. I hope he makes it. Ingenious with the smashed sardines

Lovely tale BlueBell Thank you for taking the trouble to photograph and write about little SSS.

I've thought the very same thing lemongrove, about how white and clean they look. Very beautiful.

glamma at least the cat didn’t try and stuff it into your husband’s mouth.?

Well done BlueBelle for your good deed of the day.I like gulls, how do they stay so clean I wonder, brilliant white plumage.

“One night my husband woke to find a frog on his pillow & a very proud cat sitting watching”

Craftycat Did you kiss the frog and see it turn back into your husband

A lovely happy ending! I needed it! ?