On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:13:50 -0400, Ann wrote:

gldancer expounded:

Today I had to cut away some bird netting from a black snake that was
entangled in it. The netting was over the top of the garden, but some
of it was on the ground and this what the snake was in. My husband
held the snake's head away from me as I cut and cut. She was finally
somewhat free from the netting, but still had three areas still
encircled by it. Not once did she try to bite, but was very patient
with me.

It finally wiggled away from us. Strong!! I hope that the rest falls
off her or I am going to have to find her to try to get the rest off.

So this is just a warning about netting left on the ground. I learned
my lesson!

gloria in sunny hot hot hemlock hollow
(everyone into the pool!)

I freed a robin yesterday that had got his toe twisted up in netting
over blueberries at a client's garden. I heard a strange flapping and
it took me a bit to figure out what was going on. He was frantic,
made it quite difficult to do much, but then he went limp, so I
gathered up the netting in one hand so he was hanging down below it
and used my clippers to snip very close to the toe - I hope the bit
that was wound around it falls off. He bolted the moment he was free.

Aside from the ridiculous statement about killing ground hogs which
has nothing to do with this subject, I have hope the world is honoring
life. I thought I saw a bird today flapping on the ground so I
stopped my car and waited. Actually, the birds were taking turns
acting injured because there was a hawk overhead and they were
diverting the attention back and fro.

I went home happy knowing it was okay.