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As I said, the saga of the little green heron (who either fell from his nest or jumped from it when his mom didn’t return), is an incredibly heartwrenching but ultimately inspiring story of courage and perseverance triumphing against all odds. When we finally got a volunteer from the Sacramento area heron and egret rescue organization to come out and take a look, she said that she did find a nest right above where this little guy was hanging out and sadly there was a deceased baby bird in it that could well have been one of his siblings who didn’t make it.

To give you an idea of how hard this little bird had to fight to survive, Check out these photos of him climbing up that chain link fence because he couldn’t fly yet, stretching out his neck to pull himself up! He made it to the top and paced back-and-forth frantically looking up into the trees as if hoping against hope his mom would appear but knowing he could not yet fly back up there to take shelter. The wildlife volunteer told us that although she feared for his survival, especially at night without feathers to keep him warm, we really couldn’t “rescue” him so we just had to let nature take its course and watch him struggle to survive- which amazingly, he ultimately did!