Good morning everyone. Yesterday was animal rescue day. First we had a male cardinal knock himself silly on one of the windows. I could see him laying on the ground upside down, so went out to see if he could be helped. He was not happy at all about the dogs being with me, but he let me pick him up and move him out of the sun. I put him in a flower bed in the shade. I came to check later and he had moved to a different flower bed nearby. Later still, I checked again and he was gone, so I presume he came out of it and flew away. There isn't anything out there that would have taken him at that time of day from under the trees where he was.
Then last night we found a little mouse stranded in the bathtub -- he had fallen in and wasn't quite able to jump out. We haven't had a mouse in the house in years. We watched him jumping around for a minute but then he just sat under the faucet and looked at us. My wife trapped it under a mug and I took it way out back and let it go in a brush pile. He fared much better than most mice I encounter.
