Let’s start with the good news: the feisty female red phase screech spent a week in the mini-pen, which is plenty large for a screech to build up flight muscles. Yesterday evening she was bouncing off the walls so I left the door open about dusk, and by dark she’d flown the coop. I managed one photo of her early in the week, right after I moved her outside.
An adult male barred owl wasn’t as lucky; he came in with a shattered hip. I’d planned to get x-rays, in hopes it wasn’t as badly shattered as I thought, so given his late arrival, I made him comfortable for the night and was going to call Smalley’s in the morning. Unfortunately, he must’ve had internal injuries, as he died overnight. I didn’t even get an intake photo of him, as I’d thought I’d just snap a few while he was on the x-ray table.
This morning an adult male red shoulder came in with his left wing broken at the wrist, and both radius and ulna were fractured. This didn’t even require x-rays; the wrist was broken right in the joint and the radius and ulna were so badly displaced that the middle of his “forearm” bent like a second wrist. He was humanely euthanized.
This morning an adult male red shoulder came in with his left wing broken at the wrist, and both radius and ulna were fractured. This didn’t even require x-rays; the wrist was broken right in the joint and the radius and ulna were so badly displaced that the middle of his “forearm” bent like a second wrist. He was humanely euthanized.
The great horned is heading for release soon, possibly by midweek; I’m watching the weather to determine her release date. Didn't she grow up to be a beauty, though?!
And the brancher barred will be headed for the mini-pen this week. He’s getting antsy now and wanting to test those wings!
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