Okay, so somewhere in there was an Eagle rescue that i forgot to post about.
i was at work when a phone call came in for me, which was very surprising, since no one knows i*m there.
But it was my supervisor & she*d gotten word that they were looking for me on facebook about an Eagle that appeared injured on Seawright Road.
Turned out it was Marielle, from IWNCC, who*d gotten word about the Eagle.
Aaron went down there to capture, but the Eagle flew away.
i told him to keep the rescue gear, because i believed something was wrong with the Eagle.
They had been spotted down on the beach, & rather than fly away, they were clambering up the very steep bank & once they got there, they flew off.
So, that*s not normal.
Sure enough, a few days later, Aaron captured that Eagle a few doors down from that same spot.
i think there had been a dead Sea Lion there that the Eagles were eating.
Now i realize time has passed & i never heard what was going on with this Eagle or how they did, so i left a message for Aaron to see if he ever heard anything.
Now, last night.
i was sitting in my towel after my shower eating my lovely heated dinner when the phone rang.
(Of course!)
Apparently they were discussing an injured Barred Owl that a fella had found on a trail near the School.
They were thinking the Owl had been hit by a car & there was mention of a bloody injury on the breast, but this trail is quite a ways from the road.
People were mentioning my name there but i wasn*t on facebook to get those messages, so fortunately someone called me!
Then, while i was on the phone, the fella who*d found the Owl called me so i got the full details.
He said he*d looked up how to capture the Owl on youtube!
He said he*d petted the Owl, yikes, & picked them up in a towel & put them in a cardboard box but then the Owl was unhappy & ran off.
So he left the box & towels & called me.
Fortunately he told me which trail he*d been on, because, since it was being said that the Owl had been hit by a car, i assumed the Owl was on the trail next to the road, but in fact they were on the inland trail.
He told me 100 meters in, & i was worrying, because i was sure i*d already walked that far, but there was no sign of the box & towels.
Had i missed them?
i kept walking & fortunately spotted the two red towels & the cardboard box, finally.
Now, where was the Owl.
i looked about near the box & finally spotted the Owl in the Salal, eyes closed, all done in looking.
i searched for an easy way in but there wasn*t one.
i figured the Owl would bolt & i*d get tripped up by the Salal, but i walked slowly closer & the Owl did not move, just looked at me with those lovely luminous eyes.
Then i popped the towel over the head & there was no struggle til i picked the Owl up.
i could hear them clacking & feel their feet scrabbling, but they weighed next to nothing.
When i popped them in the towel in the box they fell over with just the weight of the towel & stayed that way.
Yikes.
i closed up the box & walked back to my van & when i got home transferred the poor thing into a proper kennel with a towel lining the bottom.
Even after i removed the cover towel, the Owl remained lying on their side.
Not good.
i covered the kennel with the other towel & left the kennel on my outside porch for the night.
i was sure the Owl would not make it through the night alive.
This morning i woke early & thought right away about the Owl.
Were they alive & could i arrange a trip to MARS for them?
So, that got me up & at *em.
When i checked, the Owl was alive & upright!
No clacking this time.
i put ads all over the Hornby facebook pages & yay! Aaron said he*d take the Owl right to MARS so yayyyyyyy!
i phoned & left a message about the Owl on MARS* answering machine so they can call me for details if need be.
