>cold morning outside my work place >see weak sparrow hobbling

Was fucked to begin with, OP.
>find bat on a train bridge
>try to stealthily sneak up on it despite fully aware of high rabies/disease risk
>jumps below into water and cannot find it

More often than you think, you can help IF you immediately get something the attention it needs. Intervening is not wrong. If you were to just take it home and 'keep it warm' then it would have died anyway, just in an a scary unfamiliar environment. Don't help unless you know you can. If you cant, and know it won't make it, the least you can do is kill it as painlessly as possible.

>>2228632
Still sucks

I feel you on that OP

>Last week of summer
>Walking down pier around midnight
>See seagull laying down, obviously hurt
>Some asshole fisherman left his baited lure laying on the rocks
>Stuck in bird's wing
>Try to sneak up on it to cut off the barb
>Bird gets spooked, tries to fly off, nosedives into the harbor

>>2230286
>Some asshole fisherman left his baited lure laying on the rocks
fishermen are cancer

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>10 yo me walking in the woods
>spot baby bird on the grass under a tree, does not seem hurt
>I cant spot the nest he fell from, easily accessible
>my gullible-ass mom talks me out of putting the birdling back in it
>"its mom will pick up your scent and not recognize him !"
>find out years later that it is just a shitty urban legend
>my conscience thanks you, mom.

She also believes that bats will get stuck in her hair, no matter how many times I have demonstrated her it is bullshit.

>>2231530
Tell me about it.

>swimming in a lake with friends and 8yo brother
>jerkass fisher set up on the bank not 20ft from us
>says there's no sign prohibiting fishing so we'll just have to move