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

[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.