Hard to believe we’re five months into 2024; at this rate next week we’ll be gearing up for Christmas!
Last week was a quiet week, with no new intakes. Quiet doesn’t mean not busy, though, as we were working behind the scenes, as it were, to get the nonreleasable screech squared away for placement as an ed bird. The follow-up vet visit at Smalley’s went well; the x-rays showed no change from his first visit, and vet Peggy Hobby agreed that he was, in fact, nonreleasable, providing a letter to that effect for the state and feds. So all the requisite paperwork has been submitted and now we hurry up and wait. Once everything’s approved, he’ll be going to Beth Thomson of Blue Ridge Raptors and in all honesty, she had to do all the paperwork; all I had to do was get the follow-up vet visit and ask Peggy for the letter stating he was nonreleasable. Beth has a great setup and an excellent working partnership with her ed birds, so he’ll be in good hands once the transfer is complete.
Last week was a quiet week, with no new intakes. Quiet doesn’t mean not busy, though, as we were working behind the scenes, as it were, to get the nonreleasable screech squared away for placement as an ed bird. The follow-up vet visit at Smalley’s went well; the x-rays showed no change from his first visit, and vet Peggy Hobby agreed that he was, in fact, nonreleasable, providing a letter to that effect for the state and feds. So all the requisite paperwork has been submitted and now we hurry up and wait. Once everything’s approved, he’ll be going to Beth Thomson of Blue Ridge Raptors and in all honesty, she had to do all the paperwork; all I had to do was get the follow-up vet visit and ask Peggy for the letter stating he was nonreleasable. Beth has a great setup and an excellent working partnership with her ed birds, so he’ll be in good hands once the transfer is complete.
The great horned is perching now, so this week he’ll be moved into one of the flights. He utterly despises me, which is the best feeling in the world for a rehabber working with young raptors—means I’ve done my job and he’s still wild.
Same for the barred twins, who also hate me, clicking those beaks and lunging at me when I feed them. Only in wildlife rehab would having your “patients” dislike you be cause for celebration!
Given that the great horned and barreds are at approximately the same stage of development, at the moment it’s a toss-up as to which birds will go in which flight, but at the moment it’s likely the barreds will go in the mini-pen and the great horned in the main flight. Maybe. We’ll see…
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