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It was early that cold Saturday morning. I was making my morning check of the owlet who had, just 4 days earlier, fallen out of the nest. The owlet was still too young to fly but had the ability to climb. With mama’s coaxing, it found a refuge from the coyotes, people and dogs that [...]
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For Icarus
Lovely Blue Falcon
Who stayed for a year
I lost you forever
I wish you’d be here!
Children stopped playing
When he stood on my glove
Listened to stories
Of the birds I love.
Hawks with crushed wings
From gunshot and wire
They all come to me
Exhausted and tired.
Satin winged eagles
Looking at me
Stretching their wings
Longing to be free.
Twelve different hawks
Sit side by side
Telling me [...]
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Tom Clayton was inspired to write this poem after he and his wife Mary Lou visited Vasquez Rocks County Park in Los Angeles County, California. Here a group of park rangers care for injured raptors and other birds. The photo below, taken by Mr. Clayton, is a Red-shouldered Hawk, who was shot [...]
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The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
The wing trails like a banner in defeat,
No more to use the sky forever but live with famine
And pain a few days: cat nor coyote
Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game
without talons.
He stands under the oak-bush and waits
The lame feet of [...]
Continue reading Hurt Hawks
by Danny Siegel
Printed with permission of the author
Sigrid Ueblacker repairs eagles. And hawks and owls and falcons and other birds of prey. There have been a couple of thousand she has taken care of since 1981, nearly all of them victims of gunshots or traps or poisons or other unfortunate encounters with human beings.
Some of [...]
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From Elke to Mom and all the birds released, and yet to be released, spring 2003
You shall know the night - its space, its light, and its music.
You shall see earth sink in darkness and the universe appear.
No roof shall shut you from the presence of the moon.
You shall see mountains rise in transparent shadow [...]
Continue reading American Earth
It all began very innocently. My early morning hike on December 3, 2002 started out like any other. The cold crisp air, the crunch of the trail gravel under my feet, and a distant coyote searching for his breakfast all set the scene. Being a birder, I had my binoculars in [...]
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They’re doing well!
(If you missed the first part of this story, you can read it HERE)
I suppose I didn’t read the fine print when I entered into my agreement with Purdue. She remained gentle and was proud of the new white fluffy life under her body, but she never attempted to feed the young ones. [...]
Continue reading Purdue’s Babies (Update)
On March 25th 2004 two cold Great Horned Owl eggs were brought to our Foundation. The parents had begun to set up household on a ledge of a new construction site. Each morning when the construction crew arrived,the parents fled to a tree near the building and waited until evening to return to their eggs. [...]
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The Story of an Eagle Release
Sometimes something miserable, sordid and cruel can transform into a pure and wonderful thing of almost spiritual proportions. The story of Freedom, the Golden Eagle, is such a case.
Can anything be more free-spirited than a golden eagle high in the sky? Wheeling and soaring on thermals, an eagle has total [...]
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