Bird in a box for Boxing Day.

So...yesterday I found this little fellow flapping around on the ground. I thought it was an Eastern Rosella. A thunderstorm was approaching and so I carefully caught it in my t-shirt and put it in the empty 'chook' pen that I built so that it, at least, it had some shelter.After the storm I went to check on it and discovered that it had somehow escaped the pen, probably through a gap in the chicken wire. I looked around and found it not far away still hobbling around on the ground and looking very damp. I caught it again and put it in a box of straw with a bowl of honey water and left it safe in there over night.This morning I rang Granite Belt Wildlife Carers and was given the address of one of the carers in Stanthorpe and I took my boxed bird there.I now think I want to be a Wildlife Carer after visiting that wonderful place this morning. It turned out I was right and that it was an Eastern Rosella. I told the lady that I thought that it had an injured foot because of the way I had seen it holding it. She was not an expert on birds and said that she would phone one of the other carers to see if she would take it. Sitting on the bench in the room that she took me into was a large cage with the cutest little Koala snuggled up close to a large stuffed teddy bear. It had been found all alone near Warwick yesterday.The lady said that she had just been disposing of some mice for raptor food."We have a baby Wedge Tail that needs food otherwise it's not a job I enjoy" she said. It turns out that she gassed them in a jar using a soda stream machine. You learn something new everyday don't you?"My house is full of mice you could have had" I said.Outside in another cage was a small grey fluffy ball which turned out to be baby Nankeen Kestrel. While we were talking an elderly man wandered past followed by a small and very cute baby kangaroo."We call her the Shadow," she said "because she follows you everywhere."I wanted a small, cute baby kangaroo following me."I think I want to be a Wildlife Carer" I said." Come and look at this," she said.She took me round the back and there were four large cages in a shed. In one of them was the Baby Wedge Tailed Eagle that had been found out near Liston. In two of the other cages there were more young Koalas. One had been found near Somerset Dam, one near Logan in Brisbane and one on Stradbroke Island. The one from Stradbroke Island was the cutest and leaned in close to me peering at it."He wants a cuddle" said the lady and she got it out and I was able to stroke it's little head. The little kangaroo had wandered in and wanted some attention too and so I patted and stroked that too.What a great job these people do caring for these animals until they are ready to be released again back where they came from. It was a lovely way to spend 30 minutes in all their company this morning.