Crimson Red Sports

 So, earlier this week I was working my p/t job in the small rural town of Hartford, Alabama. While there a young woman (who was working on a remodel project next door) busted into the Fire /EMS station looking for help. " Can someone please help us with this hawk? It's injured, can't fly, and the mocking birds are attacking it."
 I walked outside with her and she led me to a small garden behind the station. Sure enough, there sat the poor hawk being pelted by mockingbirds. When he saw us a approaching he quickly ran into an open nearby carport, in which he was cornered. We then dropped  dropped a large open cardboard box over him. I took out my knife and cut some air holes in the box, all sides and the top.
  After phone calls to the Game Warden, PD, several area Vets, and one unanswered call to some one called " The Bird Lady" ( who was supposedly permitted for Raptors), it was quickly determined that no one could / would take this wounded bird of prey under their wing.
   Auburn  Small Animal Clinic was contacted. They informed us that the only Vet offices that could help were in Foley, Grant and some other location, not near Hartford, Al. So it was determined that " Hudson" must be transported to Auburn.
(Yes, I named him Hudson after the" Movie Hudson Hawk.")
   Luckily for Hudson, our EMS Chief is an animal lover, is very cool, and happened to be at the station that day. She ( the EMS Chief) looked at me and said, if you wanna make the trip, you have my full permission. We have enough people to cover the shift.
  So after borrowing a medium size dog kennel, transferring Hudson to it, we were off. I had the cage covered with a sheet, and strapped on to the ambulance cot. Our EMS Chief informed Auburn that we were on the way. Hudosn did not put up much, if any, of a fight when I moved him from the box to the kennel. This worried my deeply that he would not survive the trip. However, about 20 miles outside of Auburn He started to screech. This made me happy, as I was worried the whole time that we would be delivering a dead hawk to AU.
  When we arrived, we saw a sign that said E/R. I knew that since we were on an ambulance, that is where we needed to go. Instead of traumatizing the hawk any further, by picking up his cage and carrying it around, we rolled him, covered cage and all, into the E/R on the stretcher. To say the girls who worked at the counter were shocked, would be an understatement, LOL.
  Hudson was transferred form the cage to another cardboard box, and the appropriate paperwork was filled out. As we were walking out the door, I looked around at the girls behind the desk and said, " As a Bama fan, it gives me great pleasure to give y'all The Bird!" They took it in the context it was meant and laughed.

Meet Hudson...

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 #+ Great story, R. I feel sorry for the hawk, though. They'll probably teach it to fly into glass press boxes if they actually heal it.

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Good for you and the bird.

Now, regarding this part of your OP, I think the bird sensed that he was about to be given to Auburn and he was likely voicing his displeasure at you...

BTW, the Grant Animal Clinic is really close to my home and is where the wife takes our critters for veteranary care.  They are a very top-notch facility.

 #+, all of your crew there deserves an atta-boy. God Bless, and RTR!

Tell that to the 12 families that houses burned to the ground while he was nursing a bird. SIAP

Thus the "shift is well covered," LOL.

Our little FD may only have 5 or 6 fires a year and two of 'em are poor ol' BAMAWV's brush piles. So if we could hire you, we could lay off the rest of our FD. Think it over and we'll get back to you!

GREAT JOB Ruben  !   #+

Only two samll probs...

1. I am just over 6 years away form retirement, so I am not leaving ubntil thta is done.

2. I will not move North again. ( Unless my sone winds up at UA, then I might move to Tuscaloosa with him). I messed up when I moved back north of I-10!

grandpaw always told us ..."if you live north of I-10 you're a yankee"   :clap:

the insurance companies seem to have an issue with people that
live south of I-10 around here though ... the rates are killer .

You are so right. My house is about 1/4 mile north of I-10. My homeowner rates are very reasonable. When I lived south of I-10....not so much.

Update: Hudson is living with a "Foster Momma" hawk,  eating solid foods and they are planning on releasing him later this summer!

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