Miles the roadrunner wasn\u0027t long for this world – 120 hours, give or take – but not for lack of trying.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” Hagan said, adding: “It just tells me they’re both very kindhearted.”.Hagan, a 70-year-old retired attorney who has volunteered for the centre since 2018, was impressed with the lengths the couple had taken to save the nest’s last-surviving egg and then its hatchling. Inspired, she took to her keyboard to peck out the story of the pains they had taken for the baby bird and published it on the centre’s Facebook page.
Miles did well the first few days at the centre. But on June 3, workers there grew worried when the bird stopped eating and failed to gain weight exponentially, which is typical of hatchlings. Miles died the following day. It wasn’t the happy ending everyone had hoped for. Although the bird’s death saddened Hagan, the campaign to save Miles remains undiminished in her heart. The couple went to extraordinary lengths to save a helpless creature from certain death. Their efforts failed, but that wasn’t something they or anyone else ultimately had power over.
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