Hi moxie seeing that you run the eagle cam I figured you would appreciate this info more. I know one of the vets at Avian haven and I sent her a text asking about the owl and this is what she said. It was severely emaciated and had several large wounds that were necrotic that we were unable to repair.
I did the exact same thing this past spring. Great Horned as well. Took it to a rehab where it was monitored for 48 hours to rule out Avian Flu. Turned out it had been attacked and lost some wing feathers that stopped it from gaining altitude. Great Job!
Good jobs Best thing to do is welding gloves and grab talons first! I am a wildlife capturer and I e seen those things pierce a face and hook down through the tongue of the rescuer!
I'm so glad you posted this!! I caught this live yesterday and was completely fascinated by what was happening. 😳 I had to rewind it a few times to catch what was happening... then I saw them catch "something". I wasn't sure what it was... but it was interesting. Thanks for explaining!! Great job being stewards of nature!! I hope the owl recovers.
Thanks for all you do for the wildlife. Hopefully the owl will get the care it needs, thanks everyone! I see the deer are eating everything you put out for them, come late night the troughs are empty. They are sure hungry, thanks for feeding them.
I hope your eagle shows back up. We had 1 that we watched raise it's young for several years. 2 years ago it disappeared and was found not far away along a pond. It had eaten a rat that some ignorant fool had put out rat poison for instead of traps. It killed the eagle as well as a neighbors cat who had caught a palm rat. Some people just don't think or care about all the harm poison does to all the other birds and animals too.
Although it died, I m very thankful you had them pick up the owl and not let her suffer for several more hours or days before it would have died anyway.When i over months had to bring several severely ill and/or injured singing birds, city pigeons to my vet who specializes in birds and birds of prey, i was always crying when i sat next to the bird and she put the mask over the birds head. But she told me that animals and birds do not "know" aand are not aware liks us humans that they re about to get "killed" when she puts the gas mask on (she only uses masks no sytinges for euthanizing birds as syringes are painful). The only thing these suffering birds feel when the medication gas starts working is that their korrendous pain is slowly fading away and they actaully die in a relaxed and "happy" feeling for the pain is subsiding....they are not aware that their death will be next. That s when i no longer cried when i brought her some injured bird again and she told me euthanizing them would be best as they cannot recover enough to ever be living on their own again (There were years when so many of ill and injured (by cats) birds were in my garden i became almost scared to enter my garden and look in trees and in bushes and see another one...i esp remember one pigeon, her entire breast was torn out by probably a bird of prey not cat but she was ALIVE as i picked her up and looked me in the eye. I hurried her to the outskirts of Munich to my bird vet by taxi as i dont own a car to relieve it from suffering and euthanize it. So I m thankful you rescued the owl and not let her suffer for several more hours or days before it would have died anyway.
@@moose434 too bad, but them wild birds get injured or sick, rarely survive, anytime you see a wild critter out in the daylight like that and not fleeing quickly, pretty serious red flag...
