Sorry, no pics as our hands were busy. Fishing off the beach this morning.... quite windy and the braid was airborne. The stellar fisherman I was with casts, the spoon is about to hit the water and BAM! The spoon takes off into the air! A cormorant (?) flew by and snagged the braid mid-air! Dropped it up beach with the line broken off. Hopefully there isn't a bird flying around West Van sporting a new piercing!
So we're chatting, I told him about a seagull that had thieved a baited line out of our boat a few years ago while we stopped at a dockside pub.... two tiny trebles embedded in it's beak..... but I digress. Not FIVE MINUTES LATER, I see him cast out of the corner of my eye, and his line whips past my eyes - I looked at him to give him some good natured flak, only to have him staring at a SEAGULL that had tangled in his line mid-air! The braid had wrapped around it's neck a couple of times and it was choking... lucky for the bird, the hook did not poke an eye out or something, it was hanging loose.
Long story short, I held the net over the bird, held it's beak closed and lifted it's head so my esteemed college (forever known as the Birdman of Ambleside) could slide his (again, lucky for that bird he had blunt tip haemostat with scissors built in) scissors between the braid and it's neck; clean cut of the braid, no damage to the neck. The bird took a couple much needed breaths and flew away.... no harm, no FOWL
To be clear, there were no birds in the area we were fishing, he wasn't casting into flocks of seagulls (great, now that song is stuck in my head!).... they were both random chances..... and yes, the seagull was the only thing we brought to the beach between us today