The Brief
- A family out for a Saturday morning boat ride and fishing adventure ended up saving a Blue heron from a tangled fishing line.
- It happened on Silver Lake in Columbia Heights.
- Jeff Krause and his kids discovered the bird trapped in a fishing line hanging from a tree branch. They cut the line, got the bird to safety and it’s now recovering at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (FOX 9) – What started as a Saturday morning on a Twin Cities lake for a man and his kids turned into a rescue operation to save a bird’s life.
Blue heron stuck in fishing line
What we know:
Jeff Krause took his kids out for a boat ride and some fishing Saturday morning on Silver Lake in Columbia Heights. At about 9 a.m., they came across a blue heron trapped in a fishing line that appeared to be stuck on a tree branch, unable to move enough to get out to freedom.
Krause family rescues bird
The backstory:…