Stranger than fiction. A Utah family found this pair of conjoined baby robins:
Turns out it was not a genetic mutation. Somehow, a plastic thread lodged between the two nestlings after they hatched and as the skin and feathers of the two birds grew, they were literally woven together.
A veterinarian separated them – one is doing well, the other in critical condition. I hope both little ones can survive…
(image from Deseret News)
Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
And sings the tune – without the words
And never stops at all.Â
– Emily Dickinson
I’m so alarmed by the pseudo-conjoined chicks. Hope would never let her chicks sit still long enough for that to happen. How ARE the chicks? I probably wouldn’t even recognize them anymore.
Just saw them after being gone three days. Tulip looks almost big enough to be a young crow! All of them 30% bigger than when we left last Friday.