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Lovely Darleen Ortlieb of Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino County, CA, is an animal rehabilitator with a special touch - for tiny humming birds. She's been doing it for 15 years, and I love the 'only' in the quote below; that's how many feeds over 21 days, to save a single bird?
It only takes three weeks to rehabilitate them, but you have to feed them every 15 minutes, from sunup to sundown, she said.
'Over the years, Ortlieb has rehabbed five species of hummingbirds, though there are several other varieties. After treatment, rehabbers are supposed to release the animals they have cared for in the same area where they were found.
But if they get caught in a snowstorm I drive them down the hill, she said. I give them a break. '
Darleen has to buy special sugar water for the little critters too, at $45 a pop. At the time of publication, she was shaking in her shoes at the thought of travelling to Arizona's Sedona Hummingbird Festival as an invited guest speaker. That was Aug 1-3rd, and I'm sure she was a great success.
Darleen - who is also a gourd artist - is turning her care and attention to endangered flying squirrels now too. San Bernardino is the only place left in California where they still exist, and she wants them to be put on the protected species list.
http://www.mountain-news.com/mountain_living/article_827c24e6-1771-11e4-9cd1-0019bb2963f4.html
It only takes three weeks to rehabilitate them, but you have to feed them every 15 minutes, from sunup to sundown, she said.
'Over the years, Ortlieb has rehabbed five species of hummingbirds, though there are several other varieties. After treatment, rehabbers are supposed to release the animals they have cared for in the same area where they were found.
But if they get caught in a snowstorm I drive them down the hill, she said. I give them a break. '
Darleen has to buy special sugar water for the little critters too, at $45 a pop. At the time of publication, she was shaking in her shoes at the thought of travelling to Arizona's Sedona Hummingbird Festival as an invited guest speaker. That was Aug 1-3rd, and I'm sure she was a great success.
Darleen - who is also a gourd artist - is turning her care and attention to endangered flying squirrels now too. San Bernardino is the only place left in California where they still exist, and she wants them to be put on the protected species list.
http://www.mountain-news.com/mountain_living/article_827c24e6-1771-11e4-9cd1-0019bb2963f4.html