I've never seen any case of birds attacking their rescuer once they were liberated. Yes, they will lash out trying to protect themselves when trapped by whatever, but once that's gone, they're happier getting as far away from people as possible. (Although there are some cool cases where the bird flew a short distance, landed, studied its rescuer, then took off again.)

Heck, I've never encountered an owl in need, but when I was a kid I found a song bird trapped in the chicken mesh surrounding our garden. I didn't even think about getting scratched or pecked, I did what I could to free the poor thing, and once it was free it took off. I didn't get a single mark from that bird. How I wish I could say the same of Bird E. Bird! ^_-

Still, go you! In a way this makes me feel a bit better for the bird we encountered up in Toronto. We can never save them all, but we should always do so when we are able.

(Forever ago I read about the experiences of an American teacher in Japan, and he did get into a discussion with a Japanese man on women. The Japanese man pointed out that American woman were very fat compared to Japanese women, but then the teacher pointed out that American woman also had much bigger chests than Japanese women. It made the Japanese man stop comparing. ^_^;; All men like women with some shape, even if they don't want to admit it!)