Baby birds have travelling home
By Greg Bennett
The Coast Guard
NovaNewsNow.com
A nest of baby dark-eyed junkos are almost through taking regulars drives between Gunning Cove and Churchover.
For now, they call the grill of a 1994 GMC home.
A few weeks ago, workers at the Stan Demings and Sons Fisheries plant noticed the nest, complete with baby blue eggs, nestled behind the front bumper of the truck.
Since then the baby birds have hatched and business co-owner Steve DeMings says the birds are almost ready to leave the confines of the truck for the blue sky.
Three times a week the birds have made the trip from the Churchover plant to the Gunning Cove Wharf and back without incident.
When the truck returns, the chicks’ mom and dad are waiting, beaks full of juicy bugs.
“The mother always comes back for them,” said Steve.
He expects the little birds to fly from their unusual home soon, in the meantime, company drivers will be taking it slow to avoid jostling them from the nest.
by Greg Bennett/The Coastguard 
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Isabel Grace Bilyk
Comment online since August 23rd 2008I found a baby birrd by a tree it was a dark eyed junko what do I do it's living in a big tupawear box and it's got dirt and worms but what else do I do I'm going to school soon and I don't how to prepare it for that time. It's in my room but I know nothing about this bird.