Wild Bird Rescued in front of my house

[orleans]

there is a telephone pole that has a hole near the top of it that birds nest in.

tonight there was a starling with it's leg stuck in a crack in the wood by the hole near the top of the pole. it was hanging upside down for over three hours.

we called the police. we called animal rescue (closed), the fire department came and said they wouldn't go up there because of electric wires.

we called commonwealth edison. and we waited.

every so often the bird would flap it's wings and struggle. but it was getting tired (hanging upside down for so long).

com-ed came out with their cherry picker and managed to rescue the bird.

someone who stood watch with me (for over three hours--someone who has done numerous animal and wildlife rescues) took the bird home for the night to take care of it and will be taking it to a wildlife refuge in the morning for what what probably is a broken leg.

hopefully a happy ending. certainly a happy ending for tonight. (i'm emotionally exhausted)

[alittlelark]

1. Too cool! If you and those around you had not persevered

it would be dead by morning.

Best luck to the starling, and...:yourock:

[Spinzonner]

2. One should not interfere with natural selection

Nature was trying to eliminate a line of starlings not smart enough for their environment.

[Skittles]

3. imagine if the same was applied to humans

we would have no republicans

[friesianrider]

7. My thoughts exactly...

Look at all the human crap that reproduces. I would lose NO sleep over saving some poor bird's life. :eyes:

[orleans]

4. ez for you to say

but how do we know it wasn't really the electric company trying to eliminate them by putting a telephone pole there?

or maybe it was the fire department trying to eliminate them by refusing to rescue the bird?

hard to say.

but since the other birds seemed so determined to help--they tried pushing this bird back up into the nest and one bird perched on top of the pole, standing guard for over two hours, i figured this bird was important--and destined to be discovered and helped.

[friesianrider]

8. You did the right thing.

Helping the helpless (and innocent) is always good, and you'll be rewarded for it somehow.

It's like saying "don't help the poor or homeless, if they're too stupid to make it on their own" - and you know what political party's logic THAT sounds like.

You saved a life, and don't let anyone tell you it was wrong :eyes:

[blackcat77]

5. You're a hero

Allow me to be the first to give you the bird......appreciation award. :)

[friesianrider]

6. Well good for you!

Wildlife refuges are very good places to take injured...well, wildlife lol. I have their phone number on my fridge and have taken several animals to them - injured bunnies, injured birds, etc. They're great.

You made a huge difference in that little bird's life - you should feel good :) In my eyes, the smallest the creature, the more they need our help and protection. I can only believe with all my heart that good karma will be heading your way.

Good for you! :)

[orleans]

9. thanks--but it was really a group effort

and i'm especially grateful to the guy with the "cherry picker" in his com-ed truck.

apparently they really aren't suppose to go out and rescue wildlife. and three of the four calls we made to commonwealth edison were calls pleading our case for the bird needing help (okay, i admit one call we said there weren't lights on in a couple houses....which was accurate--the neighbors did not have lights on in their house at the time...)

so the guy who came out -- all he would've had to say is "we don't rescue birds" and there would not have been anything we could have done after that.

so he did a really great thing.