[MickaCoo] Starling Didn't Survive

I'm very sad to tell you that the starling rescued from my vent duct didn't make it. Last night, before the worms but after the salty sugar water, the poor thing pooped black water (not blood- I checked). The bottom of the duct is covered with a really fine black powder that I think starling ate. In any case, he looked forlorn at dusk and so I brought him in from the coop and had him in a carrier half-bottomed with a heating pad. I was encouraged when I checked on him at 10 because he had turned away from the low light I had put on to check him. But the poor bird died in the night. I was really hoping he'd be ready to free. The starlings and feral pij bathe in a coop-top bird bath every morning... Elizabeth Y www.RescueReport.org