Firefighters rescued an impaled seagull from a Halifax church Wednesday morning.

Capt. Pat Kline said they got a call about the bird stuck on a lightning rod at Saint David's Church on Grafton Street.

Needing more than a wing and a prayer, he brought in an aerial truck and firefighters used a cardboard box to stow the bird as they brought it safely to the ground.

"We're going to have him checked out by Hope for Wildlife. He seems to be fine. He had a pierce through one of his wings and couldn't get off the lightning rod," Kline said.

If this story sounds familiar, you're probably remembering Spike, the seagull who was impaled on the same church in 2010. And yes, we made the wing and a prayer joke then, too.

Hope for Wildlife also rescued Spike, one of the more than 1,000 animals the society takes in each year.