[tn-bird] Re: Interesting (bogus) Hawk Story
- From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
> I wonder did anyone else notice that the director of the rehab
> center in
> this story had the name "Kestrel Skyhawk"? Could that be the
> person's real
> name?
>
> Carol
As a volunteer firefighter, EMT, and former handler of captive
raptors, the whole thing about "firefighters administering morpine"
smacks of being bogus. Firefighters can't legally carry it; if they
did, they would not use it on a bird; if a bird was injected with the
drug, it would likely be fatal. From where do these stories come ?!
Now for bird news: Eastern Screech Owls seem to have had a good
breeding year in Walker Valley. We are hearing at least a couple
every night around Tremont (Blount County, Great Smoky Mountains
National Park).
We're still hearing Barred Owls there, too.
And, to complete the trio, I've been hearing a Great-horned Owl at my
new place in Maryville. I need to check the old list, but this may
be the long-awaited county bird for me!
Good birding,
Charlie
>
> Hi All,
>
> Here's an interesting story my son sent me recently:
>
> Hawk gets stuck on Wing
>
> September 9, 2002 Posted: 2:51 PM EDT (1851 GMT)
>
>
>
>
> ARLINGTON, Washington (AP) -- "Call 911! I have a hawk stuck to my
> arm."
>
> It didn't take long for gas station customers to see Jamie Wing
> wasn't
> kidding.
>
> A red-tailed hawk collided with Wing's pickup truck Thursday, and
> after she
> freed the bird's wing from the side-view mirror, the hawk invaded
> the
> truck, bit Wing's lip and then sank its talons into her right arm.
>
> Wing, 38, said she threw a coat over the bird, tried without
> success to get
> it off her arm -- and then drove to the nearest highway exit.
>
> "Every time you touched the bird, it gripped harder," she said.
> "There was
> a point where it got so painful that I was going to reach down and
> break
> its neck myself, but I love animals and I realized the bird was in
> shock
> and pain."
>
> Firefighters administered morphine to help ease Wing's pain, and
> two women
> from the nearby Sarvey Wildlife Center pulled the hawk off her arm.
>
> Wing was treated at a local hospital for puncture wounds on her
> right arm,
> hand and thumb. "I feel lucky it didn't chew me up more," she said.
>
> The hawk had to be euthanized because both wings were broken too
> badly to
> heal or be repaired, said Kestrel SkyHawk, who cares for birds of
> prey at
> the center and is on its board of directors.
>
>
>
> Howard Groce
>
> Byrdstown, TN
>
>
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