It's A Jungle Out There

[Animal rescue workers sure had a busy day] yesterday, rescuing a series of cute baby critters roaming loose (and laying unconscious) on city streets.

First, at 10 a.m., a former parks commissioner reported spotting a hawk who had fallen from his sky-scraper perch and crash-landed near the Ziegfeld Theatre (where, coincidentally, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt later spent the night at the premiere of A Mighty Heart—we’re just saying.) Then, at 11:30, reports came in that another bird of prey—this time an [American kestrel]—had fallen several blocks away on Third Avenue, likely after its cute, baby head collided with the side of an HSBC Bank building. It seems the sky-dropping birdies were both 7-week-old fledglings unsuccessfully trying their wings for the first time. “It’s the season when birds are learning to fly, which is not easy to do in midtown,” the parks commissioner explained. Both birds were rescued by the Department of Parks and Recreation and are expected to make a full recovery.

But that wasn’t all. At 11 a.m., police received reports that a [sheep was on the loose in the South Bronx], strolling happily along East 133rd Street in all its sheepish glory [Here are our EXCLUSIVE!!! photos of the event taken by John Baxter]. The 7-month lamb was eventually [cornered by a flock of warehouse workers](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/06/14/2007-06-14_sheep_flees_butcher__bolts_in_s_bronx__w.html) after a [half-hour chase](http://www.amny.com/ny-nysheep0614,0,2680665.story?coll=am-entertainment-navigation) through a parking lot. Police later loaded the lamb into a patrol car, and brought her to the Center for Animal Care and Control. Turns out. she had escaped from a “live animal market” where she would have been sold for dinner. Thanks to the daring escape, “Lucky Lady” will now live out the rest of her years at a farm sanctuary upstate, along with other delinquent livestock.