Just one new intake last week, another juvenile Cooper’s hawk, and as with the previous two juvie Coops, this one was starvation-thin but alert. He ate small meals on his own and even cast a couple of small pellets, so I was hopeful this one would make it, but no...if all these Coops had come from the same county, I’d be really worried about avian flu, but they were from three widely separated counties, so who knows?
Last week’s rainy weather delayed the barreds’ releases, but we’re aiming at releases by the middle of this week, while we have a stretch of clear skies.
And the red shoulder is getting quite vocal. He likes to fill me in on all the latest gossip morning and evening, and God forbid he doesn’t get his mice immediately after I walk into the yard where he can see me from his flight, because that 60-second delay is causing him to starve to death, and he announces it for all the world to hear...Such a goofball...
Once the barreds are released, he’ll go into the main flight for a week or so, and then he’ll be ready for transfer to the falconer mentioned in last week’s update.
Once the barreds are released, he’ll go into the main flight for a week or so, and then he’ll be ready for transfer to the falconer mentioned in last week’s update.
There will be no update next Sunday, July 2.
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