Re: OT - bird drama

Great story about the owl - I love owls!   Your mom sounds like aces to me!

On 10/1/08, Jesse Bell <justjess01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cool story Judy.  I think owls are just outstandingly beautiful animals.  I
> just love them.  I just love animals in general I think.....
>
>
>
> On 9/30/08, Judy Browning <judylee@lewiston.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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>
> >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> 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>
> >>>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>> Pam Evans
> >>>>>>>> Kemp TX
> >>>>>>>> zone 8A
> >>>>>>>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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