New homes

These two birds are heading for new homes. The raven, CRACKER, leaves this coming Tuesday for the South-western High School Raptor Center in Somerset, KY. This is a program in the school run entirely by the students with teacher supervision. They have received other birds from me in the past including a raven that died of a heart attack last year. Just a few months ago they also received a baby golden eagle, DAVE, aka, SANTEE. CRACKER suffered a broken wing as a very tiny baby in the nest and by the time she "fledged" and was found the damage was non-repairable. After a partial amputation you can see she looks just fine and is very athletic besides having the super intelligence of all corvids.

The golden eagle, BURL, is leaving as soon as the federal permit comes through, hopefully in a week or so. He's going to be living at the Balsam Mountain Trust Nature Center in Sylva, NC. This is a facility that does educational programs with non-releasable birds and animals. BURL is an old bird altho now that he's back in good health he may not be as old as I originally thought. He came in very starved due to being blind in one eye which made catching a meal very iffy.

It's taken so long to get the birds out of IBR and WY because the weather was too hot in the places they are headed. Especially one stop on the flight, Atlanta. Now that their record highs are non-existent the birds will be on their way to their new homes.