silver eye help

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iaos
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My neighbour brought around a half feathered silvereye, still with a little bit of down on it. My guess would be about a week off fledging. Any ideas what to feed it until I decide what to do with it?
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iaos
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Well I fed it for about 4hours this morning, it was happy and healthy, calling loudly and feeding well. While I was out the back there were adult silvereyes feeding and calling, so I gathered the little one up and stuck it in a cane finch basket and hung it up in the vine in the fence about 4 m from where their nest would have been. The parents heard it calling and found the nest immediately and were feeding it within 20 minutes. :D
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SamDavis
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Cool. Good job!
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Excellent result :thumbup:
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Diane
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Great idea. Beats trying to hand raise.
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mattymeischke
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:clap: well played.
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cookey
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Good one!
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Mortisha
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always the best solution -great result
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iaos
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A photo of the little one before I put it outside. I checked on it today, appears to be doing well, so fingers crossed.
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mattymeischke
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awesome.
Avid amateur aviculturalist; I keep mostly australian and foreign finches.
The art is long, the life so short; the critical moment is fleeting and experience can be misleading, crisis is difficult....... (Hippocrates)
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