I saved a baby bird today. . .

[Paula Sims]

At least I hope it's still alive. . .

I was walking to work from the train and I pass this parking garage. As a preventative, the garage has these God-awful bird distress sounds and I cringe every time I walk past. Sometimes I look down at the grates and I'll see dead birds (sadness). Today I saw 3 -- horrible and I kept making the sign of the cross on myself (at least subtly).

Then I looked and there was a bird that seemed to be alive, in the middle of a grate, but not flying away from me. I was able to coax it to on a small notebook I was carrying (its legs were OK) and just put it on a side growing area.

I hope it's still alive and just stunned. I've done this before and it's a great feeling. Just nice to save something so precious. I almost could hear it say "thanks - nope, not afraid of you."

Let's all give a moment of silence to that bird and wish it safety and happiness.

Paula

[LiberalElite]

1. You did a good deed

I've tried to help a couple of them over the years too.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. best wishes to the bird.

[BlueJazz]

3. You're a kind person. Hope the bird lives..

[MisterP]

4. I once got a squab out of the middle of College Park Station--no idea how it got there

(cost me another trip to get back in the platform!)
does the garage have a big dead-bird problem, it sounds like?