Bird Watching: baby bird help, 1 by DevilDogs

DevilDogs wrote:
Well, I went out to feed the horses this morning and planned on looking to see if I could see the nest or momma or anything and as I'm standing there feeding my one horse, another baby drops at my feet and the mother/father immediately starts fluttering around having fits. So, I did what any evil human should do and immediately stole the baby . I scooped it up and took it inside and dumped it in the feed bucket with the other one and brought them both outside and put them a short distance away from me and watched as I continued to feed. It didn't take long. The adults soon showed up and started feeding the babies! I took an empty pot and put some hay in it and nailed it to the tree as soon as I was done feeding and put both babies inside and the adults continued to feed them in there. It didn't take long for one of the babies to fall out and try to climb back up the tree so I put him back in the feed bucket at the base of the tree. The other one held on for about 2 hours before he too fell out and tried to crawl back up the tree so they are both now back in the bucket. I don't think they are safe on the ground like that, but they can't jump out of the deeper bucket and end up under the horses feet or in the dog yard. They are trying to fly so I think they should be able to soon. I took a bunch of pictures. Too many to post so I uploaded them to picasa. Link below if anyone's interested.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kbilliu/BabyBirds#