Please send your most positive wishes to DH18 whose legs were entangled in monofilament line for an extensive period of time – long enough to cause severe damage to both of its legs.
Thank you ‘H’ for making sure I saw this immediately! Thank you AEF for all your care for DH18.
I went to the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1990 and received my PhD from the University of Leicester in 1993. After three decades of university teaching, I retired to devote my time to the study of raptor behaviour. I am particularly interested in Ospreys and am working on a long term project on third hatch survival and siblicide in these raptors. My blog is a result of a fascination with my local wildlife and the desire to encourage others to love and care for birds! I live on the Canadian Prairies and prior to the pandemic travelled a lot. I am questioning the use of aviation fuel at the moment as we all strive to help our planet. My early research was in politics and art including British public statues exported to Southeast Asia and Vietnam Resistors that contributed much to Canadian ceramics. Books and articles were published on those subjects over a period of 3 decades. Now I am working on books for children so they can learn about the challenges our raptors face.
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Thank you Mary Ann for this update! Hopefully all will be ok. AEF will know what to do after it is released from the clinic.
Have a good afternoon and hope your eyes are better.
Linda
Thank you Mary Ann, for continuing updates! I hope attention will now turn to the problem of fishing line being tossed aside carelessly around lakes and rivers entangling the lives of all birds and wildlife. Hopefully the coverage (news stories and your blog!) of this particular nest crisis will raise awareness on the dangers of littering and polluting the earth with any kind of garbage that can endanger wildlife. I wonder if fishing and hunting magazines couldn’t join in on educating their readers about this…? It’s all so agonizing! Makes our hearts heavy.
Hi Betty, I am right there with you. Humans leave their garbage out and about, most of it dangerous to wildlife. Just toss it in the water – no one will see. Every community should have two annual clean-ups of the shorelines at every pond, lake, and river in their area. We have to do better!
Hi Debbie. Thank you for writing in and for your concern for DH18. I have heard that he is in ‘guarded’ condition and that we should know in 2-3 days whether or not he will pull through. Send all the positive energy you have to him!
Thank you Mary Ann for this update! Hopefully all will be ok. AEF will know what to do after it is released from the clinic.
Have a good afternoon and hope your eyes are better.
Linda
Thank you Mary Ann, for continuing updates! I hope attention will now turn to the problem of fishing line being tossed aside carelessly around lakes and rivers entangling the lives of all birds and wildlife. Hopefully the coverage (news stories and your blog!) of this particular nest crisis will raise awareness on the dangers of littering and polluting the earth with any kind of garbage that can endanger wildlife. I wonder if fishing and hunting magazines couldn’t join in on educating their readers about this…? It’s all so agonizing! Makes our hearts heavy.
Hi Betty, I am right there with you. Humans leave their garbage out and about, most of it dangerous to wildlife. Just toss it in the water – no one will see. Every community should have two annual clean-ups of the shorelines at every pond, lake, and river in their area. We have to do better!
Do you know how the surgery went?
Hi Debbie. Thank you for writing in and for your concern for DH18. I have heard that he is in ‘guarded’ condition and that we should know in 2-3 days whether or not he will pull through. Send all the positive energy you have to him!