{"id":133743,"date":"2025-11-14T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/133743\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:00:07","slug":"lost-bird-led-to-safety-by-quick-thinking-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/133743\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost bird led to safety by quick-thinking couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87238407007-trnd-hummingbird-lured-out-of-condo-with-a-flower.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch flower lure lost hummingbird to safety<\/p>\n<p>A couple used a flower to lure a bird out of a California condo<\/p>\n<p>A quick-thinking couple freed a trapped hummingbird in Oxnard, California.<\/p>\n<p>Corrine L. Draper spotted the tiny bird stuck inside her condo. &#8220;I immediately called my husband and asked him to bring a hibiscus flower and a long pole,&#8221; Corrine said.<\/p>\n<p>The hummingbird ignored the hibiscus but locked onto a coleus bloom from Corrine\u2019s balcony, following the flower down from the ceiling before flying out the sliding door.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below to see the delicate rescue as a hummingbird is gently lured out of a condo by its one true attraction!<\/p>\n<p>The hummingbird wasn\u2019t the only small creature that needed a helping hand. In Portsmouth, Virginia, a kitten trapped in a storm drain was brought to safety thanks to a kind passerby and three trained rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing desperate meows echoing from the drain, a 7-Eleven employee contacted PETA for help. Three team members rushed to the scene. Using towels and a garden hose fitted with a piece of wood, the rescuers carefully guided the frightened kitten through the winding pipes to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the video below to see the dramatic rescue!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/85981014007-quickthinking-rescuers-save-tiny-kitten-from-storm-drain-pipes-thumb-1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Quick-thinking rescuers save tiny kitten from storm drain pipes<\/p>\n<p>An alert from a kind 7-Eleven employee in Portsmouth, Virginia, led PETA rescuers to free a tiny kitten trapped in a storm drain.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-week-old orange tabby \u2014 named Mackie after the 7-Eleven worker who called in the tip \u2014 is now in foster care with one of his rescuers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch flower lure lost hummingbird to safety A couple used a flower to lure a bird out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[16633,55552,127,19017,14179,4670,83445,85,46,421,420,426,19008,141,3963,30201,2059,2957,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-133743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal","9":"tag-animal-welfare","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-article-plus","12":"tag-birds","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-hummingbirds","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-neutral","18":"tag-overall","19":"tag-overall-neutral","20":"tag-plus","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-trending","23":"tag-trending-video","24":"tag-video","25":"tag-welfare","26":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}