Flit #5 - Flit's fruit smash

Almost exclusively a fruit eater, Flit eats a mash of nectarine, banana, and pear, or sometimes blueberries, or mango, depending on what I have in the kitchen. Apparently they don't do apple, but other fruits are ok.

So I try to keep it natural for him, and mash up fresh fruits. Sometimes I 'anchor' the fruit with a little crumbs, or dog-meat roll scraping, or dog chow biscuit (1-3) soaked in water, so they are soft and mushy.

At times, I add a drop or three of water, especially with the chow or meat, so that there is plenty of fluid getting into his system.

I feed this to him with a tiny plastic spoon. The curved bottom I face towards the back of his head, so it would be like his mother's head pushing the food into his gullet. It seems to work - the little reverse-forked piece on his tongue seems to 'scrape' the smooth plastic of the spoon clean of food, and into his gullet, as it leaves his beak.

As I start work on Monday, he will go to another wildlife carer, to live with other figbirds, from tomorrow.

I hope he continues to thrive.