Free Bird

[mudpuppy]

I hit a soccerfield at sun-up...very cold strong wind out of the NW....big heavy clouds got all lit up red with the rising sun...F70 running shallow program of sens 42...got a 2 Q stack, a dollar coin, couple nickels, D's and P's a 5 more Q's along the way...i had to get rid of some coffee, so I hustled on over to the plastic porta crapper...its one of those big ones that a person could sleep in if it came to that, or make a nice ice fishing shanty out of I suppose, except that then strangers would be pounding on the door all the time scaring away the fish...As I was taking care of urgent business, something caught the corner of my eye, something flying around in there with me! At first I thought it might be a bat, in my instinctive haste to not get bitten, I lost control of the nozzle, soaking the front of my shirt and pants! ... Just this little sparrow who was either trapped in there, or seeking refuge from the wind...I remembered finding a bunch of frozen birds under a thick shrub when I was a kid after a horrendous cold blow one winter... I held the door open and he flew off none the worse for wear...a guy just never knows what adventure awaits once he gets out of the house....I dont mind getting wet, happens all the time, and in greater frequency the older I get, but getting bit by a bat in a porta crapper would sure have been a good story too...
Mud.

 

[triplehooked]

Well, two birds gaining their freedom is better than one bird being stuck in the pot..... errr... something like that....

 

[jim tn]

My wife walked into my digging and computer room and asked if I was o.k., I was laughing so hard. She read the post and said "whats so funny about that?" I said, probably nothing, unless you have been there, done that, yourself. She said,"I don't even want to hear about it." Now that funny Mud and some good hunting. Wet pants and shirt, cold temps and and a brisk NW wind. Oh what us diggers have to go through. HH jim tn

 

[mudpuppy]

No troubles Jimmy...my wife has no sense of humor either...most of my hilarious antics either go unnoticed or earn me disdain!

TH, for a quick moment I thought about eating this sparrow, under the premise that "The Lord Provides"...you know, skewering him on a piece of chain link fence wire and cooking him with my cigarette lighter, then sitting down in the plastic portacrapper, gobbling him up, and wiping off my mouth with the township provided toiletpaper as a napkin! Yes indeed, next time perhaps!
Mud

 

[Steve O]

Ha ha ha lol.......crap you'll never forget...........that's a wren by the way. They are always getting in places they shouldn't be.

 

[Roland58]

Good catch, Steve O........I was just about to let MudPup know that the bird was not a sparrow, myself. I have to be careful when I close up my shop, as there are two or three that love to come in and check everywhere for a tasty morsel (bugs and spiders). They keep the eves of my house free of insects, as well. Good to have around.

Don't be toasting any wrens, MudPup....sparrows, okay, grackles, okay, but, not wrens.

 

[Steve O]

Yea Roland, the'll build their nests in the darnest places if they know they can get in and out safely. Noisy little buggers too....one of my favorites around here,...Like Mud's story,... on the brighter side of life.

 

[mudpuppy]

Look at that pointy beak! innochio I guess I really was in great danger! What a close call!
Mud

 

[Steve O]

Ha! The little wren made you wet your britches, mud....that's better than a beak in the eye for sure. I may have blasted scared out the door, bird in hand (not the wren),... hoping for no audience.

 

[dbax]

Hey Mud,
nice picture, that's what is called, "multitasking" -- I left a post with an experience I had in the wilds of metal detecting. Dog Attack -- it can be dangerous out there, lift your head up and be aware, as Mud was, of your surroundings, you never know when it might be a bat -- or a raging pit-bull looking for blood. Glad it was only a bird and for letting us know there is more to this hobby than digging rusty money out of the ground, and or, helping clean the parks. Peace, Dan

 

[Idxpro]

Lost control of the nozzle.......That's a good one Mud!!

 

[JimmyCT]

Mud, your stories are always fun & entertaining. I needed a good laugh and thankful you are ok with the "mishap". Thank God it was only a little harmless Wren.....

At first I thought it might be a bat, in my instinctive haste to not get bitten, I lost control of the nozzle, soaking the front of my shirt and pants! Mud.

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

Too funny. haha. cch

 

[Woodchuck]

Hey Guys hate to burst ya's bubble but that's not a sparrow its beak is to long and thin, sparrows have short and blunt beaks, Might be a brown house wren, either way it was in the right house LOL

 

[kaolinwasher]

distractions, thats funny

 

[markg]

I had a small sparrow fly into my truck one day. It landed on my steering wheel. Scared the ??? out of me at 55 miles an hour. Managed to pull over and roll the window down and out it flew.