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need to be left alone to find a place to lay their eggs, adding that any mammal can be a vector for rabies, especially foxes, raccoons, skunks, bats and ground hogs.
Everyone watched in awe as Julie pulled on a falconer’s glove and presented a Red-tail Hawk with an almost five-foot wingspan. A bulldozer had knocked down the hawk’s nest when she was young pinning her wing under it. She was bought to the Wildlife Center, but even surgery could not repair her right wing to full flying ability.
Unable to pass “Mouse School” she could not be released in the wild. Julie asked the crowd if they would be able to wait for two months for baby birds to grow enough to leave the nest before trees were knocked down and there was a unanimous, “Yes.” There were many questions about the hawk, all answered with enthusiasm and evident knowledge of the wildlife she helps save.
Saving the best for last, of course, the falconer’s glove was replaced with a small, white glove to be the perch of a Saw-wet Owl (the second smallest in the country.) It was only five inches tall, weighing only three ounces, mostly feathers, fluff and enormous eyes.
This little owl was hit by a car and lost a wing. Owls often hunt along roadsides where
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