Hero Cat

The other evening, my wife and I were eating our dinner on our screened porch. It's one of our favorite places to be to relax and watch the birds stopping by for a drink from our bird bath and watching the hummingbirds and yellow finches stopping by for food. We have quite a large crowd of hummingbirds this year, they are flying in and out constantly now, and watching their antics is so amusing as they try and boss the other birds away from the feeders. They fly so fast and so frantically that it is amazing they don't run into things including humans more often. Our cat, Starbelle also enjoys watching them, she's an indoor cat and being out on the screened porch is her idea of being an outdoor cat. But she would love to get outside to play with all these wonderful birds.

So during dinner, suddenly Diana jumped up and exclaimed, oh my goodness!!! I glanced over to where she was looking and saw a hummingbird with his beak stuck in the screen on the porch. His little body was hanging limp and there was no movement at all. I thought for sure the bird was dead. Starbelle noticed the little bird at the same time and made a mad dash to the shelve below the screen, jumping up she batted the bird and at that instant it came free and zoomed off to a near by tree to recoup. Our little Starbelle saved that hummingbird's life that evening so now he can come another day to entertain us all at dinner time. I wonder if he knows he was saved by a cat?