A baby bird must be warm before it eats. To warm the baby bird, fill up a jar with warm water and place a nest of tissues against the jar. Place the baby bird in the nest and allow him to warm up. Given the baby bird's small size, a few minutes may be all that's needed before the bird is warmed up and ready to eat. If the baby bird has few feathers, or no feathers at all, use a small plastic container (e.g., empty margarine tub) as a nest. Fill the container with paper towels or toilet paper. You could also place this against the jar of warm water to help the baby bird warm up. The baby bird may gape (open its beak) on his own once he is feeling warm. If not, he may need some encouragement from you. Softly whistling or gently nudging on his chest are good ways to stimulate him to gape. You may need to gently pry the baby bird's beak open with your thumb. Keep in mind that you may injure the baby bird when handling him, so you should be very careful if you nudge his chest or pry his beak open. Use something very small to feed the baby birdtweezers, cocktail sticks, plastic coffee stirrers, and baby medicine syringes are all suitable feeding utensils. After putting a small amount of food on the feeding utensil, aim the utensil towards the right side (your left) of his throat. The left side of the baby bird's throat contains the trachea. Just like with people, food should not go down the trachea. Hold the utensil at a height where the baby bird will easily be able to take the food from the utensil. Make sure the food is at room temperature. You may need to cut the crickets or mealworms into smaller pieces before feeding them to the baby bird. Feed the baby bird until his crop is full. This is probably the most challenging aspect of feeding a baby bird. In the wild, a baby bird gets fed every 10 to 20 minutes during daylight for 12 to 14 hours a day. Maintaining this feeding schedule is not very practical for the average person. Contact your wildlife rehabilitation center to transfer the baby bird over to the center's care as soon as possible. The emergency baby bird food should be fed only as long as it will take for you to coordinate the transfer of care. Discard any remaining soaked food after 12 hours. After this time point, the food will start to spoil.

Summary: Warm the baby bird. Encourage the baby bird to gape. Feed the baby bird. Feed the baby bird on a schedule.

Your body language can say a lot! You don't want to be telling girls that you are nervous, or worse, that you don't want to talk to them. Your words might sound comfortable and engaging, but if your body language is off, they'll be as nervous as you are and the interaction will be awkward. A smile works wonders! Also keep your hips and shoulders open to potential conversation partners (crossed or folded arms and hands are bad!) Use reasonable hand motions, gestures, and eye contact while speaking. You'll appear more engaging, plus the physical movement is an outlet for stress, relaxing and soothing you. Casually make friendly physical contact when appropriate. A tap on the forearm to draw attention or a touch on the shoulder when passing are perfectly normal and are very easy physical icebreakers. Girls are actually very much like guys, and enjoy talking about many of the same things. Discover mutual interests and focus on those, or let her know that you are curious about her interests. Conversations with girls are probably easier than you think, especially when you are talking about a comfortable subject that you already like. The most important part of a conversation? Being a good listener. If you are a good listener, both guys and girls will be more than happy to pour out their hearts and minds. The best part is that you won't even have to talk too much if you aren't comfortable doing that. Listening is the most important communication skill you can have. Being a good listener will also demonstrate that you care about the other person, rather than being focused on yourself. The easiest way to not only break the ice but also build comfort in a relationship is to do things together. This doesn't have to occur in the format of a date. By having your attention focused on a particular task or activity, nervousness is less likely to creep in. It is a much more low pressure way of building comfort and getting to know one another than an extended 1-on-1 conversation or date. Find activities that involve common interests or responsibilities. Walk your dogs or do your homework together. Suggest new adventures that you both might be interested in. If you both do something new, you'll be more nervous about and focused on the new activity, rather than your nervousness about being around a girl.
Summary: Project welcoming body language. Engage in conversation. Do things together.