HOUSTON, TEXAS — A Texas cab driver stocking up on supplies ahead of Hurricane Harvey on Friday found an unexpected sidekick riding shotgun: a terrified hawk.
"He looks like he's scared. He doesn't know what's going on," driver William Bruso says in one of his YouTube videos after discovering the feathered passenger. "He just kind of hopped on in and doesn't want to leave. I'm not sure what to make of it."
Bruso says he tried to shoo the hawk away but it didn't want to leave. So he took the bird inside and gave it a dinner of chicken hearts. He decided to name his new friend 'Harvey the Hurricane Hawk.'
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Harvey the hawk stayed overnight with Bruso but was taken by the Texas Wildlife Rehab Coalition to a shelter to be treated for an injury that has prevented him from flying. They say he would not have survived in the wild during the storm.
According to a video posted Sunday by TWRC Wildlife Center, they have not been able to get Harvey to the center because the roads are flooded but once they reopen, he'll be x-rayed and treated.
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