This year baby season has come late. Normally around February and March we are inundated with calls of babies out of the nest. This year, we had a very light february and march, but the past few weeks have been amazingly busy.
We only do the beginning parts of the baby care. since we have small flight cages and limited resources, we get teh babies stable and healthy and send them to the Carolina Raptor Center. They are a huge organization, and can easily care for the babies. They even have live prey cages. that means the cages have live prey in them for the babies to learn to hunt.
This year we have already sent 1 bald eagle, 1 great horned owl and 3 barred owls and 1 red shoulder hawk to CRC. We will soon be sending them another 5 or 6 Red shoulder hawks. the reason I am unsure, is I got a call just as I sat down to write this blog about a possible baby. The caller is going out to see if the baby is still there, and if it is I will go out and get the bird.
It is still a light season, but then , it may be just getting started. It would seem the odd weather is even confusing the birds...
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