Wildlife!

[ladynox25]

Talk about a fast and furious pace. I no sooner get up, and come in to the office to check my email before getting busy about moving business (about which, more later), than my mom calls me back out to the back porch where one of the hummingbirds somehow managed to get tangled in a long dangling spiderweb that wasn't there last night.

Poor thing was trying to break it by flying away and kept swinging back and forth, half on its side, like one of those huge bungee/swing rides that you see at an amusement park. You know, the kind you lay down in a harness and they swing you back and forth.

So I reached out my hand and carefully snapped the spiderweb above where the hummingbird was trapped. For a moment, I had the hummingbird swinging from my hands as I carefully broke the spiderwebs away without touching the bird itself. Finally, I weakened the sticky threads to the point where the bird snapped itself free and flew off.

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to shut down all thought processes, especially those that involve spiderwebs strong and thick enough to hold a bird.

The other part of me is incredibly thrilled at the story.

Thanks for sharing.

[christymarx.livejournal.com]

Isn't it a lovely feeling to rescue one of those?

I once had a hummingbird get inside my house where it was being chased by a dozen or so cats. I found it in the loft batting itself against the windows as expectant moggies waited below. When it was quite exhausted, I was able to scoop it up in my hand. It was a totally weightless vibrating piece of fluff.

I went onto the back deck, opened my hand and waited. It took a few seconds for the hummingbird to snap out of the trauma, and then it shot off like a bullet, sat in a tree and complained. [g]

[deuce2.livejournal.com]

What kind of spider web. To hold a hummingbird, it would have to be a fairly large, strong web. You didn't hurt the spider did ya? Something big enough to spin a web that size is worth keeping around.

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

It was more or less lots of dense little fibers. No, we didn't kill the spider. The only spiders we kill are black widows.

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Cool. :-)