Another Success Story.
After 3 months of medical treatment and recovery from a severe injury, this Red-tailed Hawk was released back into the wild on January 7th.
On Sept. 19th of this year, I got a call that there was a hawk on the ground in Hicklville, Ohio. The man who called said that he had observed the hawk on the ground of a parking lot for several hours. He was just standing, and not flying. I went to pick him up, and when I approached him, he flew about 200 yards to a tree line. I decided to follow him, and when I spotted him, he was dangling in a tree by one foot. My husband and I used a net and got him out of the tree, and when a got a close look at him, I noticed that he had a severe injury to the outside of his left leg. We took him to Dr. Funnell at her veterinary office, and she found that he had thousands of fly eggs in his wound. After the fly eggs were removed from his leg, he spent about three months at a rehabber's house, getting his wound cleaned and dressed. After about three months, he was returned to the flight pens for creance flying. He was a good flyer, so after about a month of conditioning, he was released on January 7th, at the location where we found him.
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