The predicted lows this week are the same temps we had as highs last week. A colleague has reported getting TWO raptors with brood patches already. I have a Carolina wren building a nest under my shelter…and YET…spring won’t really have “sprung” for good till after Easter, which is in late April this year. Gonna be an interesting year…
LWR had only one new intake last week, a barred owl found by the roadside and brought to LWR by a local game warden. He’s got some head trauma but is alert and eating well.
LWR had only one new intake last week, a barred owl found by the roadside and brought to LWR by a local game warden. He’s got some head trauma but is alert and eating well.
The purported sharpie, who's looking and sounding more and more like a runt male red shoulder, is in the mini-pen and doing well enough that this week he’ll be moved to the main flight, which will free up the mini-pen for the screech.
The screech will only need the mini-pen for a week or so, as his only injury was head trauma, and the mini-pen is plenty large for flight conditioning for a tiny screech.
The red tail brought by the game warden, despite having really trashed head feathers on intake, is alert, active, and inhaling food. He’ll be the next for the main flight, once the sharpie who may actually be a red shoulder has had time for flight conditioning and can be released.
The first-year red tail is doing great with his wing wrap but not so great with cameras; he hates the camera—as you can see!
And the mature red tail is slated be the next resident of the mini-pen, once the screech is released.
Meanwhile, we’ll have some exciting plans to share within a week or so, once we have all our ducks in a row. At the moment, all I’ll say is that if the plans can be brought to fruition it will mean an expansion for LWR and a potentially long-term fundraising effort to allow for that expansion. Got y’all’s curiosity piqued? Good! Maybe I’ll be able to spill the beans next week!
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