Rescuing a crow

[Trek420]

On my way home tonight I saw a few people on either side of the road looking onto the street at what looked like a black plastic bag fluttering on the ground. As I drove by I looked back, saw it flutter and OMG that's a crow that was hit.

I stopped and pulled over, now what to do Several cars, trucks came by, at any moment I expected the bird to be hit again and that would be the end of that.

Don't know exactly what came over me but I though "maybe I can save this bird."

I looked for something in the car I could wrap it up in, towel? Nope, old shirt? Nope....only thing I could find in the gym bag was an old old old pair of PI tights.

So the crow had thus far escaped cars passing by, I walked over with the tights and gently wrapped it up. It was compliant but obviously hurt. I put him/her in the front seat of the car and pulled out the cell phone.

I keep the 24hour vets number programed into the cell. Call them, "we don't do birds call this number", call them and they don't do wild birds call this number, called the number of the local wild bird rescue group and reached a person "uh, we're actually closed so call back and I won't pick up and the recording will tell you what to do" so that gets me to a recording that referred me to another group.

By now I'm thinking I've got a future dead bird. But I call them. They said yes, if you will get the bird to us we will take it into the vet in the morning.

So I put the crow in a box with a towel and off we go. These people are up near Skyline in the Oakland Hills so it's a bit of a drive and hard to find them but I do.

I park the car and guess who's feeling chipper enough that s/he's hopped out of the box and is sitting on the rear seat and just kinda looking around? The crow.

Lina from the rescue group comes out and scoops the bird up, takes it in and they have very nice heated cages.

While I fill out a report she says "look, he's taking water from an eyedropper. That's a good sign" And just to prove the point he takes a couple more sips.

She says his wing looks broken, maybe a leg broken but he has a chance.

[crazycanuck]

What a nice human

Thank you for taking the time to help the creature, i'm sure it appreciated it.

C

[salsabike]

Good for you, girl. From those of us who care about such stuff---much appreciated.

[BikeMomma]

Dita -

Thank you sooo much for what you did. You're truly one awesome lady. More than kudos for you!

~BikeMomma

[plantluvver]

That crow had very good karma, having someone who went through all that phone nonsense for her. Glad you got to see her perk up!

[RoadRaven]

With a name like mine... I offer particular thanks on her behalf

Raven

[margo49]

Good for you, girl. From those of us who care about such stuff---much appreciated.

Wot she said
[with tears in my eyes]

[Duck on Wheels]

You go Crow Girl! (yet another nickname for your collection). Remember the book "Crow Boy"? I'm sure we both must have read it when we were kids. As I recall it was one that came highly recommended by our mutual Mom.

[KnottedYet]

That's my sweetie.