I'm glad to hear that Marc's owl recovered quickly. Last fall I witnessed a young Red-Tailed Hawk, inexpertly hunting, collide with a car, and I ended up taking it to CU's Wildlife Rehab facility on Hungerford Hill Rd. Weeks later they emailed to say that it was expected to make a complete recovery and would be released back into the wild. I'm so glad to know that we have professional, emergency wildlife care in the area.
And the RWBBs were back in Brooktondale this morning. And the geese are migrating! Robin On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Marc Devokaitis <[email protected]>wrote: > Driving east (30mph) on Slaterville/Harford road (Caroline?) at about > 7:15PM yesterday evening, my companion and I were startled by a collision > and accompanying loud thud on the passenger side of the windshield of my > early model Nissan Sentra. After a few breathless seconds we stopped, > turned around, and found the object of our unfortunate encounter--a gray > Eastern Screech-owl, sitting motionless, eyes closed, right in the center > of the poorly-lit road. > > I pulled the car to the side of the animal and put my flashers on. Keeping > the owl in the indirect beam of the headlights, I squatted close to take a > look. It was clearly sitting upright, and there was no visible external > damage. As soon as I was on the owl's level, it shuffled itself a bit and > within a moment, opened wide its calm, yellow-green eyes. It turned its > head and looked at me. I said some gentle words of sincere apology. It > blinked, and made a single, plaintive noise that I can best describe as a > sonorous peep. It was a ridiculously adorable creature. > > Still quite unsure of the overall condition of this being, I timidly > stroked the back of its head. He bristled mildly. Sensing the bird was > coming out of being stunned, I thought the most important thing was to > determine whether the wings were damaged. I prodded a bit more insistently > on its back, hoping to get it to stretch its appendages a bit. It obliged, > and after the briefest of self-exploratory motions, the owl whisked itself > out of sight into the adjacent woods. > > > Marc Devokaitis > Ithaca NY > > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail > Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > -- Be kind. Be careful. Be yourself. (In that order.) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
