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My wife is attending night classes to finish her degree. On the night of her classes I pick her (our) son up from the local high school Ag barn. I enjoy going there and seeing those kids taking care of their animals. I arrived as the agricultural science teacher was pulling in with a trailer full of cattle! It's a treat for this REDNECK! Anyhow as I walked into the barn I noticed a hummingbird trying to fly but barely making it across the floor perpendicular across my path! It was obviously injured. My stepson turned to look as this little bird had flown under the bleachers. What got Bret's attention is that he saw my fat mullet ass up under the bleachers and that's not a normal site LOL! Anyhow by this time it had peaked Bret's interest and I said catch him if you can but be very gentle as they are very frail! Bret caught the bird and it looked like it had a broken wing. I was thinking the poor thing isn't going to make it long with that injury. About that time we noticed a piece of string coming from that wing area. Bret turned the bird over and we discovered it had flown into the barn because bay doors were open and it had became spooked by the kids. It had flown into cobwebs and because of how fast their wings beat it had actually braided those cobwebs into string. After buzzing around on the floor it had become further intangled by hay laying about! As My son held it in his hand the bird had given up and was just laying in his hand! What a site! Amazing a Ruby throated hummingbird laying patiently and trustingly in his hand! I told Bret Carefully remove all the string and hay! I told him step over in the grass and gently give the bird a toss as he did the little bird took flight and we watched it fly off! Damn I wished I had that on video!

Jeff,

What a wonderful story and I know exactly how you feel!!

Isn't it amazing to be there to help something so beautiful go back out into the world, there is an amazing feeling that comes over you.

Labor Day Weekend, we went to the beach and I saw a Monarch butterfly in a wave, it was washing up with the waves and no one wanted to help it. I got to it and scooped the sand beneath it and pulled it up under it and carried it to the warm sand near my blanket.

It was still alive and spread its wings to dry them. After awhile, it started flapping its wings for more drying and then took off and I felt so happy!

So, I share your experience and know you did a wonderful thing and hopefully, that will come back to you someday, a helping hand or a good deed.

Beautiful story Jeff, and I did get a photo of my butterfly I rescued:

That's awesome Tams! Amazingly that butterfly is in the process of migration
to southern Mexico and thanks to you it will make it!
I just found out someone took a pic. of the bird as Bret held it in his hand just after he caught it! I am not much of a computer person but i'll try to post that pic tomorrow!

J-HALEY wrote:My wife is attending night classes to finish her degree. On the night of her classes I pick her (our) son up from the local high school Ag barn. I enjoy going there and seeing those kids taking care of their animals. I arrived as the agricultural science teacher was pulling in with a trailer full of cattle! It's a treat for this REDNECK! Anyhow as I walked into the barn I noticed a hummingbird trying to fly but barely making it across the floor perpendicular across my path! It was obviously injured. My stepson turned to look as this little bird had flown under the bleachers. What got Bret's attention is that he saw my fat mullet ass up under the bleachers and that's not a normal site LOL! Anyhow by this time it had peaked Bret's interest and I said catch him if you can but be very gentle as they are very frail! Bret caught the bird and it looked like it had a broken wing. I was thinking the poor thing isn't going to make it long with that injury. About that time we noticed a piece of string coming from that wing area. Bret turned the bird over and we discovered it had flown into the barn because bay doors were open and it had became spooked by the kids. It had flown into cobwebs and because of how fast their wings beat it had actually braided those cobwebs into string. After buzzing around on the floor it had become further intangled by hay laying about! As My son held it in his hand the bird had given up and was just laying in his hand! What a site! Amazing a Ruby throated hummingbird laying patiently and trustingly in his hand! I told Bret Carefully remove all the string and hay! I told him step over in the grass and gently give the bird a toss as he did the little bird took flight and we watched it fly off! Damn I wished I had that on video!

Jeff That's way cool...! You guys gave that little creature precisely what the good lord tries to give to us...
In a world that is typically cruel and monstrous, you showed love...There is a jewel in your crown for that

TamsNumber4 wrote:Jeff,

What a wonderful story and I know exactly how you feel!!

Isn't it amazing to be there to help something so beautiful go back out into the world, there is an amazing feeling that comes over you.

Labor Day Weekend, we went to the beach and I saw a Monarch butterfly in a wave, it was washing up with the waves and no one wanted to help it. I got to it and scooped the sand beneath it and pulled it up under it and carried it to the warm sand near my blanket.

It was still alive and spread its wings to dry them. After awhile, it started flapping its wings for more drying and then took off and I felt so happy!

So, I share your experience and know you did a wonderful thing and hopefully, that will come back to you someday, a helping hand or a good deed.

Beautiful story Jeff, and I did get a photo of my butterfly I rescued:

Tams, Check out "Mariposa" (Spanish for Butterfly) on my profile.

PaperDog wrote:

TamsNumber4 wrote:Jeff,

What a wonderful story and I know exactly how you feel!!

Isn't it amazing to be there to help something so beautiful go back out into the world, there is an amazing feeling that comes over you.

Labor Day Weekend, we went to the beach and I saw a Monarch butterfly in a wave, it was washing up with the waves and no one wanted to help it. I got to it and scooped the sand beneath it and pulled it up under it and carried it to the warm sand near my blanket.

It was still alive and spread its wings to dry them. After awhile, it started flapping its wings for more drying and then took off and I felt so happy!

So, I share your experience and know you did a wonderful thing and hopefully, that will come back to you someday, a helping hand or a good deed.

Beautiful story Jeff, and I did get a photo of my butterfly I rescued:

Tams, Check out "Mariposa" (Spanish for Butterfly) on my profile.

Grant that song is a MASTERPIECE! Just listened think I'll do it again!

I’ll be damned there is some humanity in JH after all. Now if we could only make starving Mexican looking to feed their families grow wings perhaps the xenophobia could cured.

Good story dude, but empathizing with an injured animal it’s easy, now try to empathize with the suffering of human beings.

Hey don’t get pissed at me I’m in your corner, I’m rooting for you, I know you can do it. Maybe one day when you’ll learn that not all migrant from South America come into the US to smooch off you…you might end up playing guitar with a Mariachi band, imagine JH you playing guitar with a Sombrero over your mullet.

Wow I'd like to see a picture of that.

"we can discover the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the riverside..."

Funny, but a bird-person (ornithologist) I know just posted an article on FB about how many hummingbirds die from getting tangled in webs.

Stringdancer wrote:I’ll be damned there is some humanity in JH after all. Now if we could only make starving Mexican looking to feed their families grow wings perhaps the xenophobia could cured.

Good story dude, but empathizing with an injured animal it’s easy, now try to empathize with the suffering of human beings.

Hey don’t get pissed at me I’m in your corner, I’m rooting for you, I know you can do it. Maybe one day when you’ll learn that not all migrant from South America come into the US to smooch off you…you might end up playing guitar with a Mariachi band, imagine JH you playing guitar with a Sombrero over your mullet.

Wow I'd like to see a picture of that.

Stringdancer, I appreciate all the positive re-inforcement! Thanks Brother!

Not as many die as geese and fish that die from shittty fishermen that leave
hooks and line on the ground where they fish.[/b]