Baby Magpies

We had a windy stormy weekend, this one just gone past and as a result I have these two baby magpies that got blown down from thier nests. They can't fly yet and their mothers abandon them. I found Poppa-Jeckle in my backyard and Nanna-Heckle in the front yard. They are really beautiful birds and make fantastic pets. For the first couple days my mum held them while I put food into their mouths, they are intelligent and quickly learn, so now they eat off my finger and have now learnt to eat themselves from their food bowl. They are sooks and still call me to feed them. They take to humans really well, so now they think I am their mum. As I am sitting here on the computer, I have one either side of me in their cages and both are sqwarking at me to feed them. I have started them on a few mealworms, it takes patience, and Poppa-Jeckle is now taking a few to eat. Nanna-Heckle is younger than Poppa-Jeckle and so just looks at the worm and does not know what to do. I just keep giving it to them with a pair of tweezers and they hold it in their beak. They have to learn how to hold worm and turn it around to get into their mouth. Poppa-Jeckle is getting quite good at this and soon will learn to pick worms from the food bowl. Then I start to put them in the straw so they learn how to dig around and look for food. Hopefully they will both be ready to release around January next year.