Sometime during the cold snap, I had a customer come into the store with
a box in hand. She said this bird had flown into her window and she
didn't know what to do with it. As I was explaining about the various
wildlife sanctuaries in our area, I took a little peek at the bird in
the box. It was a very lively looking Ruby-crowned Kinglet. I quickly
closed the lid on the box as I didn't want an escaped Kinglet flying
around the store. The box was a Nike shoe box with holes in either
ends. I said to my customer that the bird looked very much recovered
from its mishap with her window and that she should take it home and try
to release it but that she should watch the holes in this box because
they were rather large. Just then the Kinglet tried to escape. He had
his head and shoulders out of the hole by the time I could get to him.
I gently pushed him back into the box and one of my co-workers grabbed
the tape to cover the hole. We did find we had taped his foot to the
box and so we had to gently unstick him. The customer left with box in
hand once again. I hope everything worked out for the little guy.

Yvonne Bombardier
Everett, Wa
ravenn at premier1.net
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Li, Kevin wrote:
>
> During last week's cold spell my partner Kris Baker found a red breasted
> sapsucker sitting on a busy sidewalk in downtown Ballard, amid the holiday
> shoppers.
> Any similar tales during the recent sold snap? Any suggestions for sidewalk
> assistance for sapsuckers, moral and ethical debates aside? A hot cup of
> tree sap?
>
> Kevin Li
> Seattle