Normal people after films about Aliens are either afraid to sleep in the dark, or collect all sorts of gloomy things. Oddly enough it looks from the outside, but stories about xenomorphs and androids eventually led me to volunteering at the Crow's Nest, a wild bird rehabilitation center. Now, in my free time, I feed the chicks, and I also take care of the disabled corncrake. I dream of a large outdoor enclosure for small songbirds that have remained unsuitable for return to nature. When you find yourself surrounded by birds that trust you, it's an absolutely amazing feeling.

The tit on the arm is a foster child who was sent to a rehabilitation center to become feral and return to nature. I hope he will be fine!
In the background is our personal collection of tits, eagles and other cute themed items from various authors =)

I want to continue this business and help the rehabilitation center. I will not announce a fundraiser or something like that, but now, by buying from my store on Etsy, you are indirectly helping the birds :) Perhaps I will make some goods, the funds from which will go entirely to feed, medicine and equipment. Would you be interested to follow this side of my life?

My shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DemiurgusDreams
If you want to support me with a little money, it is better to choose electronic products (tutorials, coloring books). This requires almost no additional costs, apart from taxes, and some of this money will definitely go to birds, simply because I still spend this money on birds :)

Already now I have spent approximately the following amount:
- It costs about $ 150 to take birds from the city to the rehabilitation center in a comfortable car with a large capacity and an adequate driver, I have done this three times already and am going to do it about once a week, after a veterinary examination. Here I do not count the cost of my return to the city, ha ha! And there are also costs for the delivery of birds from neighboring cities. I called a taxi for a fledgling magpie, for example.
- About $ 300 cost food for insectivorous birds for my charges and directly for the Rehabilitation Center. I think the costs will be at least $ 200 per month.
- It cost about $ 100 to collect a minimal first aid kit to help injured and weakened birds.
- About $ 70 cost cardboard boxes, which are disposed of after each bird to maintain hygiene. I gave the center part of the boxes that I use to send my figurines, because boxes are sorely lacking in the chick season, when there are a lot of patients.
- About 280 dollars cost the aviary, which I took for small birds, but now there is a corncrake, so I need another one. It would also be great to have an aviary for my workshop, where fledglings of songbirds could fly and not sit in cardboard boxes. And be safe from our adorable but predatory cat.
- a large outdoor enclosure, in which it will be possible to keep handicapped thrush and handicapped songbirds, will cost about $ 1000-1500, depending on the configuration. This should be split into two sections so the birds don't harm each other. I really want to do this in the near future, this will unload the Rehabilitation Center and provide an opportunity to help those birds that now have to be refused due to lack of space ...

So many thanks to all of my customers who have come to my store for the past couple of months. Each of them also helped save the birds =)

This is the YouTube channel of our Center: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ.....G_eHBImR42m1vw
This is the social media page: https://vk.com/corvids_nest
This is my corncrake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVwqvQp2Pn4&feature=youtu.be