Lynn's Journal
June 18 - June 24
We’ve Matched 2017 admissions!
This young Red-tailed Hawk, 18-352, was blown from her nest a bit prematurely during a wind storm near Haines, OR. She’s a bit underweight, but appears to be uninjured. Our preference would be to reunite her with her family. If that is not possible, another option is to put her into a hack box and release her in a few days so she can join the flock of hawks returning to the hack box for food.
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June 11 - June 17
Great Horned Owl 18-296
The phone rang at 5:30 Tuesday morning. A man out for his morning run had spotted a great horned owl caught in a barbed-wire fence. They were only about 15 minutes away. I collected a few tools I thought might be handy and headed down the road.
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June 4 - June 10
Interns Todd and Zabrina are Working Long Hours
Below the interns are giving oral fluids to an emaciated fledgling Red-tailed Hawk.
If business keeps up at its current pace, by the end of June, we will have admitted as many birds as we did in all of 2017 (970 birds between the Pendleton and Tri-Cities centers).
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May 28 - June 3
Reinforcements Have Arrived
Intern Todd has been on the job for two weeks now and he has the routine down! Hi drove to Oregon from The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, where he is a pre-vet major. Below, he and Samantha are giving oral fluids to Red-tailed Hawk 18-232, the emaciated hawk admitted on May 26. …
