On 10 September 1993, I was tending the banding nets for the Rouge River Bird Observatory (RRBO) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Wayne Co., Michigan. On my way down the net lanes, I noticed a bird struggling in the weeds. It was a Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustalatus) thoroughly caught by the wings in the seed pods of a clump of enchanter's nightshade (Circaea quadrisulcata syn. lutetiana). Despite the bird flapping even more vigorously as I approached, it could not free itself. I disengaged the bird from the plant and returned to the banding lab. The bird was an apparently healthy hatching-year individual that weighed 32.1 grams.(The mean weight of 472 Swainson's Thrushes banded at RRBO is 32.7 g.)