August 10, 2007: Stuck hummingbird

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EHOWA is rarely linked by IotD but here's an interesting one. xoB finds this item of a hummingbird who was forced to remain motionless for the pics... when it got caught in a spider web. The full story from the photographer:

I took these while in California back in June. The humming bird was bouncing around up in the loft in the first pic like a fly on a window. I went up with a laundry basket and a towel to try to catch him, I was trying to trap him in the skylight on the right and then he just kind of stopped on the left and hovered there. Not like they normally hover, he was stuck in this bigass spider web. The bird was totally calm and totally stuck also. I trapped him in a towel and spent about 5 minutes plucking the web off of his wings. After I got all of the crap off, I gave him to my daughter to let go. He's still out there somewhere...