That's what I thought when I first saw the title.:-)

Good for you for helping the hawk and for getting it to help so quickly. I've got lots of good thoughts for him/her and give thanks for its complete recovery.

I had the most extraordinary encounter a couple of weeks ago. There was a car stopped across from my driveway when I came home and was trying to turn in. I couldn't see why they were stopped, but they were obviously looking at something. As I pulled in, I saw a largish bird on the ground, bent over something else. I drove in very slowly as it was in the center, so only about two feet from my driver side door. What I saw was an American Kestrel gorging on a starling it had obviously killed recently. It was so intent it barely noticed me. I was able to open my door and softly speak to it. I tried to get a photo with my cellphone but it was full! He didn't fly away, with prey, until I closed my door and then it was so swiftly, I didn't even see it go!

It was just incredible, even though I felt badly for the starling AND guilty as I remembered hearing a bird in distress the week before, but found nothing when I went to look. I now realise it was probably another smaller bird eating at the feeders I'd put out recently, being hunted by the kestrel who found me so accommodating.

We rescued an injured, young seagull in CT, one time. We had a wildlife center there which took him in. He was in a box, in our bathroom for a short while. Really beautiful, kind of angry, definitely scared bird. We rescued various other critters back there.

In Casper, WY there is an elderly couple who have rehabilitated birds for umpteen years. They allow one to come out and see their "wards" which include a blind owl and almost always a bald or golden eagle or two. They have a little handwritten logbook, well several actually, in which they keep track of all the birds ever brought to them. Their goal is always to release to the wild once it is deemed okay.