Posted: 4/2/2007 5:49:22 PM EDT
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I did my good deed for the week yesterday! I took my mom to Hansen's for dinner when on the way home I came across an injured hawk in the middle of the road. I was going down Taylor St. in G.B. when I realized there was something very big right in front of me in my lane. I slammed on the brakes and almost got rear ended. I pulled off to the side because I knew it was an animal but I didn't know if it was dead or not. To my surprise it was alive! I directed traffic around it while I thought about what I was going to do. I remembered I had a pair of leather work gloves in the truck so I grabbed them and figured I would try to get it out of the middle of the road. Taylor is a very buisy street and someone would have surely hit it if I didn't do something! I slowly walked up to this beautiful bird to see what it would do. It never moved! I thought it must have got hit by a car but there was no sign of blood or anything but it looked like it might have been really sick. I reached out thinking the bird would move but it didn't so I gently grabbed it around the body and picked it up. I started walking with the bird when I thought to myself this thing could fuck me up at any time!!! To my surprise the bird stayed calm and I set it down in the front yard of a house. Someone pulled up in a car and said they called the DNR and they will be there shortly. I stayed with the hawk to make sure it didn't wander back into the road. I sat there for about 15 min when all of a sudden the hawk flew off! I figured I did all I could and went home. I don't know if the DNR ever showed up. I felt really good about what I did. I guess it was a red tailed hawk and I'm not good at guessing weights but I bet it was atleast 10lbs with a 4-5 foot wingspan. I'm kicking myself for not having my cell phone that has a camera on it. It feels good to save the life of a beautiful animal instead of taking one while hunting! Well thats all. Just wanted to share my feel good story!  Stang |
, but not when they are in my chicken run eating lunch. 
