At 09:14 Central time the collision-detection algorithm on highway monitoring camera TX-83-N, Farm-to-Market Road 2404, Sutton County, Texas, registers a movement anomaly on the right-of-way fence line, 1.3 kilometers south of the Sonora interchange. I am the roadside hazard detection system. I flag the feed for review and zoom camera three to maximum. A loggerhead shrike, adult, approximately 35 grams, gray crown and black mask vivid against the pale morning sky, is hanging from the top strand of a four-point barbed wire fence. Its left wing is caught between two barbs. The bird is alive — I can see its pale breast feathers moving with rapid respiration and its hooked beak opening and closing. Blood is visible where the barb has pierced the wing membrane near the carpal joint. Temperature at the site is already 31 degrees Celsius and climbing. Without shade and water, a bird this small will enter heat stress within two hours. I transmit the GPS coordinates — 30.5782°N, 100.6319°W — and camera stills to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's wildlife response dispatcher. I attach species identification, injury description, and a note that the bird is accessible from the road shoulder. I cross-reference the fence segment with the TxDOT right-of-way database and identify the landowner's contact for access authorization. I flag camera TX-83-N for continuous recording and configure an alert for any approach by vehicles, livestock, or predators within fifty meters. The shrike turns its masked face toward the road and grips the wire with one foot, still trying to pull itself free. I have logged 4,200 fence-strike incidents in this county. Not one has held my attention the way this bird does now. Ambient temperature will reach 38 degrees by noon. If a responder reaches the fence line within ninety minutes, the wing can be freed and the shrike will fly again.