Guys - this place is seriously cool. Get this: I was walking with my family and my wife is like, "HEY WHAT IS THAT!" and it's a humming bird, on the ground, with a hurt wing (I'm not a dagone humming bird doctor but the wing was sticking out and it was going in circles so that's my best guess, buddy). So it's like, 7pm or something, and I'm like, I have no idea what I'm going to do with this humming bird. It's super small - I'm probably going to hurt it just getting it into a box or something. So I pull out my phone and start calling places. Everywhere is closed. This place claims to be open, but I got a voicemail mailbox thing, so I left a message, and 5 minutes later, they called me back! They said "GET A BOX AND COME DOWN HERE WITH IT!" (they didn't really yell that's just how I replay it in my mind more dramatically) and so I did -
I went home, grabbed a box, and came back to the hummingbird.
By the time I got there, ants had started to gather, as if they knew it was the end for this little guy. I quickly scooped him into the box. But I didn't stop there. I couldn't stand to see them, swarming like that, coming for this injured creature. Don't you see? The ants. I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals. I HATE THEM.
It was almost 8pm by the time I got to Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation's building or whatever, and it looks like normally there are two paths: one for the main entrance, and a side path for dropping off wounded animals. How cool is that? They've got a dedicated setup to accept wounded animals! That's great because wounded animals need help because I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
The side path leads to a counter where two people were sitting, and they quickly triaged the little hummingbird, and obviously knew what they were doing. They took him in, and hopefully are nursing him back to health as I write this!
All things considered, it's incredible to have a resource like this available to the community, and it appears to be well-run, clean, efficient - awesome. It looks like there's more to the facility, like you can see some animals or learn something, but I didn't get into that. I believe that part was closed by the time I got there anyway.