[2]A bird in the hand. Photo by Rescue 2. More photos [2].
Boston Fire Rescue 2 on Columbus Avenue in Roxbury found itself involved in an unusual rescue yesterday when somebody dropped off an Arctic Little Auk that had apparently been blown into town by the storm the other day. The species, not normally seen in these parts, dines on seafood and cannot take off without an assist.
Firefighters named the exhaused bird Olive [2]. After a Twitter effort to find someone to care for her [3], Boston animal control showed up at the station and took the bird before an anticipated hand off to the New England Wildlife Center [4] in Weymouth today for a little R&R.