,
13 tweets,
5 min read
Read on Twitter
Adventures of an accidental bird rescuer, part 2.
I was scared to call the rescue org for an update bec I was afraid Angry Chicken wasn’t going to make it. How can you walk on water when you have a seriously f*cked up leg?
I was scared to call the rescue org for an update bec I was afraid Angry Chicken wasn’t going to make it. How can you walk on water when you have a seriously f*cked up leg?
As I suspected, Angry Chicken was euthanized. Which is way better than being eaten alive by vultures, so I still think I did Angry Chicken a solid by getting him/her off the beach yesterday. Here’s a vulture I saw this morning. There were several out today. They are fugly. 
Anyhoo I didn’t have the guts to call the rescue but then...I found another beached Grebe today & therefore had to call the rescue. This one could stand but it looked like it had oil on it. I didn’t have my phone on me so I went back home, and called.
The rescue lady told me to go get it because if they get beached, there is only a small window of time when they can be saved, as they are too weak to be out on the ocean. I gathered a box, rubber gloves, & some clean fabric and went back to the spot where the oily Grebe had been
No luck. I followed my footprints but it looked like a big wave had come in at the spot where the bird had been. I called the rescue lady and she told me to keep an eye out because there are only two options if it got washed out: it will get re-beached, or it will drown.
I was really sad because I had asked for an update on Angry Chicken, learned he/she had been euthanized, and then I lost this one too! BUT! As I was walking back down the beach, I saw a familiar silhouette from afar! It was Angry Penguin, who had washed back up, about 300 feet
down the beach. YAY! I set the box down, put on my gloves and got the fabric unfolded. The rescue lady had told me to get between the bird and the water to catch it because the birds will try to run into the water to escape.
SUCCESS! that a-hole totally tries to bite me and run away and it screamed bloody murder but I GOT IT AND PUT IT IN THE BOX. Got it home and the rescue lady said to take off he fabric because they can get really tangled. So, that was this (thank you, ever-patient husband!):
Here you can kind of see the oil splotches on its chest/neck.
And you can see Angry Penguin’s legs are symmetrical & don’t look all f*cked up like Angry Chicken’s did.
I really hope Angry Penguin makes it. They are going to pick him/her up soon.
We all need more Grebe courtship dances in our lives. Here’s hoping Angry Penguin has many more in her/his future!
Angry Penguin just got picked up. Rescue lady said they’ve saved ~100 oiled Grebes this winter. The oil right now is from naturally occurring deposits, not from a spill. But it kills them the same way-unless humans intervene to clean it off.
Hoping this will be A.P. someday:
Hoping this will be A.P. someday:
