just another trapped bird story

Ready for the latest Chapel escapade?

Taylor calls me from working a wedding this morning to inform me that a red-tailed hawk flew through a window pane and is now terrorizing the Chapel during a wedding.

Fortunately, the bride didn't mind. Which is good, because the red-tailed hawk is a federally-protected animal and cannot be caught with a net. Meaning we have to wait until Monday night, when the bird will probably get weak and come down itself. At which time we will scoop it up and rush it off to an animal hospital for some emergency care. By "we," I of course mean someone from pest control who's wearing really thick gloves.

So I came over to the Chapel to see the bird and help Taylor clean up the poop (fact: Hawk poop is unlike little bird poop in the fact that it stinks. However, it beats cleaning up human poop in the Chapel, hands down.)

So everyone having a good laugh at a bird at a wedding is one thing. A hawk flying around at a memorial service is an entirely different thing. People might not feel like laughing. However, when it's the memorial service of a professor in the animal science department...it's almost fitting. When I showed the memorial service people the hawk and apologized, they immediately said, "Oh, it's him!" So...I guess the professor flew in as a hawk and attended his own memorial service, sitting regally above the altar for everyone to see. That's pretty sweet.

ps: Taylor is fabulous for taking care of everything!