OWL Rehabilitation Society - Week Four.

Week four was a one full of 'hands on' experience. I handled several birds and got involved in some interesting cases. It's not the best thing for the birds to take pictures at all times and mostly when it's interesting picture-time I got my hands ful of Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), Barred Owl, Merlin (Falco columbarius), Great Horned (Bubo virginianus) or Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). This juvenile had a bloodfeather so we had to bring it in for a check up.

As I said before, we have some interesting permanent birds. Meet some of our Front-Ed friends. These birds are all placed in pairs or groups and are mainly used as forsterparents for juvenile birds. They give to the youngster what we can't give...'Birdmanners'.

Serenity- female Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca).

Goldie - female Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos).

Rusty - male Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) -

light morph.

Casper - female Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) -

sub-arctic morph.

These pictures show you why they call the magnificient Golden Eagle 'Golden'. They also show some interesting morph-types. North America's Birds of Prey are geographically variable in colour. Casper for example is a light grey-white morph of the Great Horned because she was used to the life up north, a lot of snow and a different sub-arctic landscape. Great Horned Owls in southern BC are darkbrown-grey. She's the Bombdiver by the way. And I'd like to introduce you to our new pet, don't ask me how this little hairy guy ended up in our bed...

Some voices whisper that it was hiding in my hair! We're babysitting the Farty-Bumbum Trio, we're still enjoying the sun but we did welcome some showers, we're still trying to teach our hound some manners and I'm waiting to taste Hannah's first and without a doubt delicious cheesecake!

OneLoveFolks.

Thurb-Han-Tho-Living the LowLife.