Little Bird

[petrini1]

Today at a local strip mall, I spotted something the size of my thumb lying in front of the Hallmark store. I took a closer look and saw a grass-green hummingbird, shivering on the sidewalk, apparently injured. I thought about trying to help the poor little thing, but I had no idea how. I stopped at the drug store briefly and then walked back

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Hopefully someone rescued and gave aide

[dragonet2]

Once upon a very long time ago, when we still lived in the Prairie Village House (pre 1993), I came home from work and found a small bird gasping on my front porch, obviously exhausted

Re: Hopefully someone rescued and gave aide

[petrini1]

Aw. What a nice story. I was thinking I would try to help the hummingbird if it was still there when I came back, though I really had no idea what to do.

Once I found a mourning dove in a similar condition on the sidewalk in front of my house. I checked again a half-hour later and it was still there. Another half-hour went by, and then I watched it take off into the sky, struggling at first but then gaining strength. Maybe it had just been tired.