LJ Reherman is an experienced farmer who thought he’d seen just about everything.

But even this one caught him by surprise. Temperatures were in the single digits last week as Kingfisher County experienced more than 100 consecutive hours below freezing.

Wind chills were even worse. While checking cattle southwest of Cashion on Tuesday, Reherman saw something that made him do a double-take.

It was a bird seemingly hanging upside down from a pipe over one of the water tanks for his cattle.

Reherman soon realized the bird wasn’t “just chilling,” rather it was frozen in that position.

“I assume that it got its feet wet in the water tank because it was free of ice,” Reherman said.

“I leave water running into the tank to keep it moving so it doesn’t freeze. I notice a lot of birds drinking out of it because everything else is frozen.”

After apparently getting a drink, the bird perched on the metal pipe...and got stuck.

“It was basically the ‘stick your tongue to the flag pole and see if it freezes’ kind of deal,” Reherman said.

Of course Reherman didn’t just stand idly by.

“I splashed some water on its feet and freed it,” he said.

“It flew away and to the best of my knowledge, it was OK. I didn’t see it again.”

Kingfisher warmed above freezing for much of Wednesday and Thursday, but more frigid temperatures and wind chills worked their way into the county late Thursday night.

There is a chance for freezing rain Sunday night into Monday morning, though it’s minimal in Kingfisher County, according to the National Weather Service.

The chances are greater south of the Interstate 44 corridor.