Weeeee!

We now have a $500.00 bid for Sammy's watercolor!  monteen@hawktalk.org

Hot spit!

We have an opening bid for the 'Sammy' watercolor of $315.00 If anyone else would like to bid, please message me  monteen@hawktalk.org  !

'Sammy' painting for sale!

Liz Nicholas has so graciously offered to donate her rendition of 'Sammy', my 23 year old wonderful companion of the Great horned owl variety to help raise badly needed Mouse Money.

The watercolor paper is 9x12 with the image covering an area of 7x6 inches.

This is an original and will not be copied.

It is valued at $300.00. Please message me if you are interested. (price does not include shipping)

Here is Ms. Nicholas' web site -  http://artwithaconscience.com/

You can call me if you are interested at 770.720.1847 or 770.337.4736

Email - monteen@hawktalk.org

Sean Patrick is a STAR!

We were happy to take part in a problem solving study for raptors. These studies have been done on crows and parrots before but not on raptors. Sean Patrick was a whiz-kid! Please click on the link provided to check it out! This link will not highlight, so you will need to copy and paste to your browser.

http://www.erincolbertwhite.com/uploads/9/7/3/0/9730284/http___authorservices.wiley.com_bauthor_onlinelibrarytps.asp_doi10.1111_ibi.pdf

Houston, we have lift-off!

'Carter' goes to the beauty parlor!

"Jack" is back!

Jack was hit by a car on Superbowl Sunday and was gotten to me that night. He was pretty limp and didn't look so good...

He had a concussion with a boo-boo eye and blood coming out of his nose. I started him immediately on this non-steroid anti-inflammatory stuff that reduces swelling on the brain and helps with pain management. I also started using steroid drops in his eye after I made sure there weren't any scratches on his cornea. He didn't want to eat so I hand fed him some yummy mice.

Here he is in about a week. He started self feeding and was still a very kind patient as he allowed me to continue medicating his eye.

After about week three he really started improving and I moved him out to the big boy chamber...

I was a little worried about him the first day, because he was having trouble finding his food that I dropped through the chute. I decided the next day that I would pull him back into the house, but when I went out the next morning, he had gobbled the mice all down. "I want MORE! Those were quite good!"

We six and he was ready to go back home. Whenever possible, the grown-ups need to go back near to the pick-up site because that is their territory and their mate is waiting and wondering, "I sent Jack out for a gallon of milk and, POOF, he just disappeared!"

Well, Jack didn't look both ways when he crossed the street and so he had to make a little detour via Canton, where some medicine, food and love and sometimes help them find their way back home!

One last look-see to make sure all systems are 'go'. It's patients like 'Jack' that remind me why I do what I do, he was kind and patient to the very last second and I released him, instead of flying out of fright until he dropped dead, he quietly settled upon the rooftop of the Good Samaritan's house for a good long while, then hop-scotched up an beautiful oak, ruffled his feathers and watched in amusement as the the last few songbirds that hadn't yet gone to bed yet stopped by to greet him...

If you can, please continue to help HawkTalk, so we can continue to help these magnificient creatures that try so hard to live among the chaos we call civilization....m.



Nigel and Artemis are STARS!

Carter update

The Adventures of Ellie and Edmond...

A big shout out goes to Stacey DeHay, owner of the blog that recently featured HawkTalk!

http://ellieandedmond.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/super-horse-to-the-wildlife-rescue-hawk-talk/