Re: OT - bird drama

When I was a little girl my parents found a great horned owl that was too young to fly? or injured? (I don't really remember) standing in the ditch out in the woods. We brought him home & kept him in a big old fashioned bird cage. To feed him, Mom put on really heavy leather gloves & poked at him with scraps of raw meat until he'd snap at it. Once it was in his mouth, he'd swallow it. She made jesses for him & took him out in the yard several times each day to stretch his wings. She brought him to school for a brief show & tell to my classroom & my brother's. Once he got all his adult feathers & was strong enough that he was really pulling & flapping like he was flying, we all loaded up, took him back to the woods & cheered as he flew off into the forest. Then we got in the car & drove away so he wouldn't come looking for us to feed him. We had never heard of raptor rehab then (50s), but we wanted him to have a chance. Dad worked in the woods & always watched for him when he went that way. He would see an owl there infrequently at dusk & always hoped it was "our" owl. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT - bird drama



Ohhh - my guess - probably 2-3 weeks to get him back up and flying.  Right
now he has to be force fed.  He doesn't want to eat...but he HAS to - they
almost eat their weight in food every day. Ya have to aggravate him enough to where he wants to snap at you and then you push the food into his mouth. 
We didn't make him eat last night because he was too stressed.  Just water
with a dropper.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:


how long do you think his recuperation will take?

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:02 PM

Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT - bird drama


 Wow...last night we rescued a Coopers Hawk:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper's_Hawk

One of our daughter's is a police dispatcher and got a call from a lady
saying a hawk was in her back yard, injured, and she didn't know what to
do. So, daughter called us. Looks like it was hit by a car - bad enough that it stunned him, and then while he was trying to recoup, something got 
a
hold of his wing and broke it...two puncture marks. I guess it was tough
enough to fight off whatever was trying to eat him. The break was not bad and it's fixable. One eye is bloody, from the pressure of being hit, but 
still working and it will be O.K. again, eventually.  Poor guy......when
he
gets better we'll release him back where he was. Such a beautiful bird. I 
just love them.


On 9/29/08, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:



Our heroes!

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT - bird drama


It took another 15 minutes but he finally got fed up and took off out


toward
the highway. The blue jays came back and looked pleased w/ themselves. 
I
filled up their peanut dish as a reward for saving my whole flock over
here.  I just wish y'all could have seen it.  It was really something!

On 9/29/08, Judy Browning <judylee@lewiston.com> wrote:



Great story Pam
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:33 PM
Subject: [CHAT] OT - bird drama


 There was a big red tailed hawk in my yard.  I was coming around the

 corner
out back when a bird went by me w/ the hawk in hot pursuit. I stopped 
dead
in my tracks and he veered off and flew into the big tree in the back 
corner
of the yard.  That's the tree where my two pair of blue jays nest.
Well,
they started yelling at him and two of them dive bombed him from
behind,
hitting him in the back and the back of the head.  They kept at it
until
he
flew off.  He made a beeline across the street to one of Pat's trees
and
all
four of them followed him over there and now they are doing the same
thing
across the street. It's noisy but hilarious. They're gonna drive him 
out
of the neighborhood if it's the last thing they do.  Talk about
fearless!
That would have made a great video.

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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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