As the children grew older, it became more and more difficult for her to make the __3__ to the center. Then a crazy idea took hold: why not start her own facility for birds?
“I studied for my test, got my license and __4__ what I thought was going to be just a very small operation,” explains Gilbert with a quiet laughter. “I didn’t think that I would take in injured birds. I thought I would build a flight cage so that injured birds who had recovered could practise __5__. It was going to be mostly feeding and making sure everything was OK and then __6__ them.”
But then she would get those __7__ phone calls. “I kept saying, ‘Only this one more time. I’ll just take in an injured bird one more time.’ But someone else would call and say,‘It’s you or nothing.’ That got me.”
Bit by bit, her __8__, the children in particular, became essential to her work. “The children have helped me through a lot of __9__ times,” says Gilbert. “And sometimes birds die, and you’re really sad. And then life goes on. It’s also good to take a tiny little baby songbird and __10__ it grow up. The changes are amazing.”
Gilbert herself has learned a lot from the birds she cared for. “We regard them as really easily broken creatures, but they have the most __11__ will to live. I have seen birds with terrible injuries, and yet somehow they keep going. I am amazed at their __12__. They’re my role models.”
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