Thread by @iowahawkblog

My wife is currently nursing a hummingbird back from a window crash, because she’s a crazy-ass angel

Ima start calling her Florence Hummingbird

Mrs B (artist's rendering)

Okay now she has rigged up some sort of hummingbird IV sugar drip apparatus and now I’m worried she may be taking this a bit too far

Not a photoshop: hummingbird M*A*S*H* tent

Oh sure, when a hummingbird stumbles into the window it's the Intensive Care Unit at Cedars Sinai, but when Ol' Dave does the same thing it's Rolling Pin City

It’s a miracle. cc: Nobel Medicine Committee

Me: very proud of you
Wife: I’m just... winging it
Me:
Wife:
Me: leave the comedy to me

Me: I'm live-tweeting this, and now... wella wella everybody's heard about the bird
Wife:
Me: bird bird bird the bird is the word
Wife:
Me:
Wife: whatever you say, Mister Internet Comedian

Operation Hummingbird update

AM hummingbird update: wife took little dude outside for some touch & go takeoffs and he ran out of steam, so recuperation continues. I have named him Gibson

I can also report that Gibson's gastrointestinal tract is fully functional

geez, sorry for informing you of cute animal facts overlooked in Disney cartoons

just keepin' it real, so that my Twitter street cred isn't ruined by too much upbeat heartwarming hummingbird sweetness

Simple sugar solution from my bar. I agreed to sacrifice 1/20th of an Old Fashioned to save the life of this woodland creature, because I am a saint that way

https://twitter.com/Kjeil/status/1110921585420951557

Hummingbird update: wife is now transporting Gibson to Austin Wildlife Rescue, where we hope he will make a full recovery. Details at 11

Oh crap I forgot to cash in on this

https://twitter.com/grantrberg/status/1110959595508428802

Please give generously to the Dave Burge School For Hummingbirds Who Can't Fly Good and Would Like To Learn To Pollinate Good Too

Final hummingbird update: Austin Wildlife Rescue says Gibson looks fine, should experience a full recovery soon. Thumbs up, lil' fella