The red shoulder who’d been hit by a vehicle a couple of weeks ago and miraculously escaped unscathed aside from minor head trauma regained his freedom yesterday, and he was quite a happy camper about it.
He didn’t wait around after landing in that tree; as soon as he got his bearings, he was off again, so no post-release photos.
The vultures are still hanging around, but are beginning to show more independence.
The vultures are still hanging around, but are beginning to show more independence.
And the latest from Auburn on the eagle is that he’s being treated for osteoarthritis and they plan to evaluate him for flight in another week or so. On Monday the 19th they indicated when they called LWR for some follow-up info that they were most likely going to imp the missing feathers. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means the missing feathers will be replaced; Audubon has a great introductory article on the process here: https://www.audubon.org/news/an-introduction-imping-ancient-art-feather-mending.
I’m interested to see if they’re actually able to imp, as this process does require broken feather shafts and the eagle didn’t appear to have any broken shafts and Auburn’s exam confirmed this. I guess we’ll see, huh?
I’m interested to see if they’re actually able to imp, as this process does require broken feather shafts and the eagle didn’t appear to have any broken shafts and Auburn’s exam confirmed this. I guess we’ll see, huh?
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