The community clean up team, A Cleaner Alki, headed by Erik Bell was about to go about their business of "sprucing up" an area on the Alki Trail at the blind corner on the bike path near the bridge when they spotted a bird entangled in fishing line...but it wasn't in the water.

Greg Haapla, team member said the bird, a seagull was, "hanging from a streetlight by its foot that was entangled in fishing line. We parked the van on the sidewalk. Put a ladder on top and we both climbed onto the roof of the van. I held the ladder as Erik climbed and then I handed him a 16' long pole saw which he dropped once. Once the bird was cut loose it landed and started walking but appeared it couldn't fly so Erik grabbed it and we put it on a big brown paper bag and took it with us. He called a bird rescue he knows and they came to where we were working and picked it up."

During the rescue the pole happened to hit the windshield of a parked Tesla damaging it. "The owner said he will try his insurance first. And he said thank you for saving the bird," Haapla explained.

Bell said,"My go to is always Kersti Muul, so I called her. She was working over in Kingston but was able to send her neighbor Ruth (pictured) to pick up the bird from us. She planned on taking it to Paws in Snohomish if need be but she was able to release him after the rest we gave him and he flew off."

You can find A Cleaner Alki on Facebook HERE if you'd like to volunteer to help do community cleanups and/or help them in other ways. Donation can be made through Seattle Parks Foundation at https://give.seattleparksfoundation.org/campaign/702991/donate