I had my share of these stories and experienced such animal behavior so many times with so many pets and wildlife and I felt the animal Gratitude’s after I saved them in many different gestures, voices and body languages.  The one experience of saving a wild life that stood in my mind is when I saved a woodpecker in northern Alberta in the town of high level.

It was a nice summer weekends with a beautiful sunshine. I was reading a book close to a wide clear window in my house around 2 in the afternoon. Suddenly I heard a sharp bang on my window like something had hit it. I thought that one of the children who was playing nearby accidentally hit my window with a ball or a stone.

I walked to the window to inspected and see if it was ok. The window was ok, so I went out and walked behind my house to the window to find the ball or the object.

I was surprised to see a woodpecker bird lying on the grass. I thought he was dead and felt so sad for him so I carried him to Barrie him. When I carried the bird I felt his heart beats. I took him home and put him and put him in a large canary bird that I had. I sprinkle some water on him and kept him for while and kept sprinkle the water until I woke up from his short comma that lasted 2 hours. I started to give him some water using a dropper then after one more hour, he was fully recovered.

I went to the grocery store and bought woodpecker food and came home and put in the cage, he started to eat like no tomorrow. Then he started to look at me and make noises to let him out.

I took the birdcage out to my garden and put my hand in and hold the bird in my hand and stood in front of an open space and open my hands. The woodpecker flew away a short distance and stood looking at me and gave me 2 single bird sound, and then he flew to the electric pole and did the same, and flew back and sat on one of my trees and gave me the same 2 bird sound. I don’t know if he was saying thank you or F-you.LOL. But I think he was thanking me.

When I woke up the next day it was nice Sunday morning, I went to my back with my breakfast t tree and sat enjoying my breakfast and a cup of tea. Thirty minutes passed and before I want to go back to my house I heard the same bird sound coming closer and closer and landed on one of my trees. Then flew and stood on the patio rail. I ran to my house and brought back the woodpecker food and slowly put the food on the glass table and moved a distance from it. He came and starts eating when he was done he stood and started looking at me then he just jumped and flew way with the same nice bird sound.

I started putting all kind of birds food and feeder in my garden until this day. Inside the garden of course, so I don’t encourage wild life such as coyotes to come closer to the front of my house.

Here is a nice fictional story. THE STORY OF THE FIRST WOODPECKER.

In the days of long ago, the Great Spirit came down from the sky and talked with men. Once as he went up and down the earth, he came to the wigwam of a woman. He went into the wigwam and sat down by the fire, but he looked like an old man, and the woman did not know who he was.

“I have fasted for many days,” said the Great Spirit to the woman. “Will you give me some food?” The woman made a very little cake and put it on the fire. “You can have this cake,” she said, “if you will wait for it to bake.” “I will wait,” he said.

When the cake was baked, the woman stood and looked at it. She thought, “It is very large. I thought it was small. I will not give him so large a cake as that.” So she put it away and made a small one. “If you will wait, I will give you this when it is baked,” she said, and the Great Spirit said, “I will wait.”

When that cake was baked, it was larger than the first one. “It is so large that I will keep it for a feast,” she thought. So she said to her guest, “I will not give you this cake, but if you will wait, I will make you another one.” “I will wait,” said the Great Spirit again.

Then the woman made another cake. It was still smaller than the others had been at first, but when she went to the fire for it, she found it the largest of all. She did not know that the Great Spirit’s magic had made each cake larger, and she thought, “This is a marvel, but I will not give away the largest cake of all.” So she said to her guest, “I have no food for you. Go to the forest and look there for your food. You can find it in the bark of the trees if you will.”

The Great Spirit was angry when he heard the words of the woman. He rose up from where he sat and threw back his cloak. “A woman must be good and gentle,” he said, “and you are cruel. You shall no longer be a woman and live in a wigwam. You shall go out into the forest and hunt for your food in the bark of trees.”

The Great Spirit stamped his foot on the earth, and the woman grew smaller and smaller. Wings started from her body and feathers grew upon her. With a loud cry, she rose from the earth and flew away to the forest.And to this day all woodpeckers live in the forest and hunt for their food in the bark of trees.

BE KIND TO ALL CREATURES.

Thanks for reading

Steve Ramsey- Calgary- Alberta – Canada.