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  • A note from Lynn Tompkins

  • A fairly quiet week ended with a flurry of activity that included the release of a Great Horned Owl on Saturday, and a call from the Enterprise ODFW office Sunday evening regarding an injured eagle that will be transported to Pendleton Monday on the CTUIR bus. Earlier in the week,  the brochure for the upcoming spring seminar was finalized, and progress was made on a Get the Lead Out brochure to be available at the Pendleton Sportsman Show, March 12,13 & 14.

    Stop by Blue Mountain Wildlife's booth at the Pendleton Convention Center during the show. The awesome education birds will be on display. You can have your picture taken with Golden Eagle Ula. She will provide daily flight demonstrations (Friday evening, 4 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday). Donations of fish caught in the fishing pond will gladly be accepted on behalf of the Bald Eagles at the center - they LOVE trout! Thank you to the Pendleton City Club and Les Schwab of Pendleton for their sponsorships.

    All funds raised at the Sportsmans Show will be used in Blue Mountain Wildife's Get the Lead Out campaign. A $1,000 goal has been set to match $500 donations made by Northwest Widlife Consultants and Blue Mountain Audubon Society, Successful achievement of our goal will allow the purchase of a LeadCare II machine that can be used to test blood lead levels of all eagles and buteos (broad-winged hawks, primarily Red-tailed Hawks and Swainson's Hawks) admitted to the center.

    The answer to this week's Brain Teaser, what do Hevi-Shot and Nosler have in common, is both manufacture non-lead ammunition.

     
     

     

  • March 04, 2010

  • Today Schelle Hand-Bixler's three Honors Biology classes made their annual visit from Pendleton High School. I always enjoy visiting with the students. An extra added bonus was the bag of frozen rodents that Schelle brought!


  • March 05, 2010

  • This afternoon the education birds were on display at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute for Free Friday. Amission to the museum is free the first Friday of each month. Blue Mountain Wildlife's education birds will be on display at TCI each Free Friday through October, with the exception of July.


  • March 06, 2010

  • Today, the adult, female Great Horned Owl found on February 18 tangled in a net at the Columbia Park Golf Course, was returned to her home. There is a great story and photo gallery in The Tri-City Herald by Kevin McCullen and photographer Kai-Huei Yau.


  • March 07, 2010

  • This evening a call came in from the Enterprise ODFW office.  Oregon State Police had captured an  injured eagle that appears to have been shot. The bird will be transported to La Grande in the morning, put on the CTUIR bus, and be in Pendleton at 1 p.m.

    And here are some pictures taken by my uncle, Jim Platz, at Eagle Watch 2010. The crowd gathered as birds were put on their perches. Children are always a favorite of mine...

    American Kestrel Angus is always a crowd pleaser...

    And so is Golden Eagle Ula. She provided a great flight demonstration. There is the launch, flight to her perch, and then return...

     




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