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Despite all our best efforts at rehabilitation, regret to say that Greenwing died in the night.

His caws had become more and more feeble, We were treating him for a condition called splay leg which you can find out more about in the forums, but we think there was some underlying illness as well as he just got weaker and finally just slipped away, could have been pneumonia.

Very sad. I suppose this is one of the hardest things about rescueing baby birds that you are always going to lose some of them no matter what you do.

Special thanks to those who gave advice, Michelle, M & in particular Ari.

We have a new Rookling!

It's called Greenwing as it was found on mayday eve, the day of the green man, and also because Merlin the rook, in Deepak Chopra's book The Return of Merlin is referred to as "Whitewing" when he becomes independant of the colony, so Greenwing is also a sign of independance.

It is a lovely little thing! Very, very tatty wings! It's very large, Jo thinks it must have been the largest of the litter and all the rest were jealous of it so they pushed it out of the nest!

Now we've got another terror to look after I'm sort of hoping we dont get too many more!!

I imagine it must be quite strange for Merlin too, if he's got a nest full of these things somewhere, it must be amazing for him!

Josh