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Rescued a Bird

Mon Jun 22, 2009, 2:33 PM
  • Mood: Wow!
  • Playing: The Mark of Kri
  • Drinking: Water
Today I found a bird that got its head stuck between the gaps of the wooden fence at my home. How did it get there in the first place?...who knows. The bird was still alive, because it periodically flapped its wings and tried in vain to pull its head out. Apparently, it's been stuck there for a while since the fence was scratched up pretty good by its talons.

I didn't feel comfortable handling the bird (especially with my bare hands). I don't have much experience in handling animals. I neither wanted to injure the bird nor get beaked and clawed in retaliation. After trying a couple of ways to free the bird, a grabbed a shovel and lifted the bird's body until its neck was no longer between the fence. Surprisingly, the bird wasn't flailing around furiously as I was lifting.

The bird flew a short distance before landing on the ground. It hopped around awkwardly for a while before laying down. There was no need for further meddling because the bird eventually took off on its own.

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~midnightangel38 Jun 22, 2009, 5:18:19 PM
awww, wow!!!!! :clap: you did an amazing thing saving that bird, even with the lack of experience with handling animals :nod:

do you know what kind of bird it was? it must have been extremely tired. probably why it landed to take a rest. im really happy it got out alright :aww:
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~HotRod-302 Jun 23, 2009, 12:05:53 AM
Good way of handling it. That's good Karma!
Reminds me of the bird helping Bolt out from the same situation in the movie Bolt.

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~onikokuei Jun 23, 2009, 1:22:21 AM
Aww that's sweet, yay I'm sure it was thankful in its own way. It's kind of scary trying to help animals when you're not sure if they'll cooperate or not or if you might injure them, but go you :)

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~Joodan-kun Jun 23, 2009, 1:43:47 PM
Nice one man!:)

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~CheshireCat8D Jun 23, 2009, 6:59:26 PM
That's a good question. I couldn't answer that right, away so did a little research. It's either a great-tailed or common grackle; a female judging from it's dark brown and black feathers. She was slightly smaller than a pigeon.

When she started laying down, I was worried that she may have been injured. She didn't move much when I was standing next to her. Normally, birds would keep their distance or perch on a tree for safety. I'm glad was able to help the bird.

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~CheshireCat8D Jun 23, 2009, 7:09:28 PM
After seeing the bird like that, the only way to ease my mind was to do something about it.

I haven't got around seeing the more recent films, especially in theaters. I haven't been to a theater in two years actually. However, I do want to see Bolt and other animated films I missed out on.

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~CheshireCat8D Jun 23, 2009, 7:20:09 PM
Animals can be difficult to predict, especially species that are not normally domesticated by humans. Even experienced circus animal tamers (particularly with big cats) may bear scars from angering or exciting an animal.

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~CheshireCat8D Jun 23, 2009, 7:20:36 PM
Thanks, it felt good after it was done.

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~HotRod-302 Jun 23, 2009, 8:02:54 PM
Most of the time I wait for it to come to blu ray. My surround sound system isn't huge but is still better than most theater's sound (and no screaming kids or obnoxious highschool kids)

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