So last night after watching the debates, Felly and I were having a fascinating conversation about identity and negation when suddenly a large unidentified flying object flew into our apartment. holy hell what a ruckus. The bird, which I thought was a giant month and felly thought was a bat, was flying around, flying into things and going crazy. Needless to say that cats went instantly into attack mode. Maxx, our hunter, caught the damn thing in his mouth and tried to take it under the bed. Meanwhile, I grabbed the other cat and threw him in the bathroom and closed the door behind me. Felly got ahold of Maxx and somehow the bird got away, but it lost all of its tail feathers in the process. It landed on our fridge and just sat there, scared shitless I'm assuming. I picked it up in a towel and brought it outside and it sat there long enough for us to take pictures:
Eventually it flew away. We are not sure if it will be ok cause it lost so many feathers, but we got a good look at it and it seemed like the legs and wings were in ok shape. Poor little birdy. Bad Bad kitty.
I second Matt's comment. What a cute bird. And it was sitting on your hand, aww.
Somewhat unrelated but I saw this little wild hare crouched on Summer street while traffic was passing by at high speed. I tried to get it to go back on the grass but it was as if it was too scared to move. In the end I had to lift it up and put it on the sidewalk grass. I was hurrying to catch the 20 on Elmwood but I wish I had the time to put it further inside. I shudder to think of what might have happened to the little hare. I hope its okay.
Felly looks so cool in that pic! ;-)
That poor little thing! How traumatic.
It looks so weird without tail feathers.
What a cutie bird!