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A GREAT Horned Owl and a Red Tailed Hawk were star attractions at the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection meeting Friday night September 5. Wildlife exhibitor Buck Bradley had hoped to bring a wolf along too, but the State of Virginia refused to give him a permit to bring the wolf into the state.
So Bradley gave a bit of a talk on birds of prey and then talked about “the wolves” anyway. As Bradley talked, his Great Horned owl, Gypsy, would swivel her head completely around, wink one of her big yellow eyes or blink both big eyes simultaneously and look terribly bored, much to the amusement of children and adults in the RLEP audience.
Bradley acquired his birds from the Fairfax County Park Authority. People often turn over injured birds to the Park Authority which keeps in touch with people like Bradley who might be able to rehabilitate them. The Red Tailed Hawk, often inappropriately called a chicken hawk even though its prey is mice had been mistreated by an owner and kept in a chicken wire cage for several years. The bird had crushed the front part of its skull as it constantly banged its head against the cage trying to get out. Bradley had thought the skull damage might
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