Y’all know how I love my flyers. Well, last Sunday evening a call came in about three baby flyers whose nest had been destroyed. Hunters somehow backed into the rotten snag Mama Flyer had her nest in, totally destroying the nest. Despite being told that flyers, unlike grays, don’t have multiple nests to move their babies to, the hunters decided to finish up their hunt before retrieving the babies from the ground where they’d landed. When they came back, they found the poor mama on the ground trying to cover her babies with her own body—I don’t know about y’all, but that mental image just hurts my heart…
The trio of stressed babies, two males and a female, arrived shortly afterward. They were about four weeks old on intake, and one of the poor little males was so stressed he literally screamed—something flyers almost NEVER do.
After the first couple of feedings they settled down nicely and continue to do well. Their little eyes are beginning to open as of yesterday. I seldom name rehabs slated for release but we do need nicknames for multiples of the same species, so these sibs are Bubba 1, Bubba 2 and Sissy. And is the case with all flyers, they’re utterly adorable.
The trio of stressed babies, two males and a female, arrived shortly afterward. They were about four weeks old on intake, and one of the poor little males was so stressed he literally screamed—something flyers almost NEVER do.
After the first couple of feedings they settled down nicely and continue to do well. Their little eyes are beginning to open as of yesterday. I seldom name rehabs slated for release but we do need nicknames for multiples of the same species, so these sibs are Bubba 1, Bubba 2 and Sissy. And is the case with all flyers, they’re utterly adorable.
The red tail who appeared to’ve auditioned for Cirque du Soleil was transferred to Steve Hicks of Bubba & Friends, who reports that he’s eating quite well and flying beautifully now—he’d just started navigating the LWR raptor flight from end to end before his transfer.
The barred owl with the slightly impaired vision remains in the mini-pen, along with the barred recovering from the wing fracture. He was going stir-crazy inside so the mini-pen seemed like a good transition as we wait for the callus on the wing to strengthen a bit more. I totally forgot to get photos of them last week; sorry…
A third barred came in last week with a nasty open fracture; one end of the bone was already black. He was euthanized.
The barred owl with the slightly impaired vision remains in the mini-pen, along with the barred recovering from the wing fracture. He was going stir-crazy inside so the mini-pen seemed like a good transition as we wait for the callus on the wing to strengthen a bit more. I totally forgot to get photos of them last week; sorry…
A third barred came in last week with a nasty open fracture; one end of the bone was already black. He was euthanized.
And Sisyphus the kestrel continues to be a fierce, foul-mouthed little cuss. I’ve been trying for a few weeks now to catch him screaming invectives at me as I changed his paper and finally managed last week. See what I mean about language that would make a sailor blush?!
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