Re: blue heron fiasco

What was it tangled in? I agree with Donna, that it would be dangerous for an untrained "rescuer" to approach a bird of that size and beak. It is a shame that there was no one among the vets in the area who couldn't attempt a rescue. We have a raptor rehab center here in Quincy, and they have always been willing to pitch in on other birds - last year they took in a loon (they still can't figure how it got to the central Mississippi valley...)
Cathy
On Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Donna wrote:

They are also very mean and dangerous, especially when
hurt(as with any animal). I wouldn't go near it unless
I could tranquilize it... which is illegal.

The DNR folks could have done that...but it sounds
like they didn't get there in time. I am surprized
they didn't take it with them tho or tag it anyways...
cause who ever does take it out of the tree and
although totally free of any wrong doing.... could get
in trouble if caught with the carcus.

Donna

--- Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
<4042N15@nationalhearing.com> wrote:

That's why they needed the DNR to authorize shooting
it.
But are you saying it would be a federal offense to
have even helped it when
it was still possible?
Kitty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] blue heron fiasco



it is a federal offense to touch that bird....

Donna

--- Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
<4042N15@nationalhearing.com> wrote:

I'm not sure what is wrong with the folks around
here.  Everything is always
someone else's problem.
A locla column today wrote about a lttle boy who

saw

a great blue heron
hanging upside down in a cottonwood tree, trying

to

get untangled.  They
called animal control, the fire department, the

DNR,

all of which said they
couldn't do anything.  After 6 hrs the bird was
bloody from the high winds
and its efforts to get loose so DNR authorized
shooting it - if anyone
happened to have a gun, which finally someone

found.

 Unfortunately, the
carcass is still hanging there.  They said

someone

finally called a tree
service the next day, hoping they can get it

down.

I'm not sure what should be done, but don't you
think the second largest
county in Indiana should have some plan in place

for

such problems?
Kitty







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