RE: blue heron fiasco

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• Subject: RE: [CHAT] blue heron fiasco
• From: "Donna" g*@sbcglobal.net
• Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:01:09 -0500
• In-reply-to: 009f01c54ab6$a0128a00$010f120a@U0N15001S

Excuse me-- what is a fishing line doing in a tree?!?

I think you need to get to the bottom of this story Kitty... something is
not right about the entire thing! 

I do know that Indiana DNR took a budget cut and are using volunteers to
help. Thinking the ones that showed up at that place needed more classes
first :( If they knew what they were doing, they would have drugged it,
removed it, and accessed the damage and made a decision - away from the
crowd. They definitely would not have looked for someone with a gun to shoot
it and worse yet, left it there. They would have had everything they needed
in the truck.

Donna

> I think they mentioned it might have been tangled in fishing line or
> something.  No one could really tell because it was so high up in a tall
> tree.
> 
> Kitty
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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