Interesting morning at work

[Hilljackoutlaw]

So I came across an injured immature bald eagle by the house this morning on my way to work. Called it in to fish and game. After some help from @zpooch fish and game finally had a raptor center lady call me back and asked me if I could capture it. I said....ummmm I guess so. So I did with a little bit of struggle and they had me deliver it to a vet hospital and a lady from a raptor rehab place is gonna pick him up there. Pretty cool birds. Still in awe by the size of the bird. Pics don't do it justice.

 

[Happy Myles]

So I came across an injured immature bald eagle by the house this morning on my way to work. Called it in to fish and game. After some help from @zpooch fish and game finally had a raptor center lady call me back and asked me if I could capture it. I said....ummmm I guess so. So I did with a little bit of struggle and they had me deliver it to a vet hospital and a lady from a raptor rehab place is gonna pick him up there. Pretty cool birds. Still in awe by the size of the bird. Pics don't do it justice.

Clever equipment. I am going to remember pet cage and a blanket good work and good for you!

 

[FI460]

Clever equipment. I am going to remember pet cage and a blanket good work and good for you!

Ya great idea with the blanket. I watched a coworker wrangle a red tail hawk with a towel last year. It was a bit of work.

Amazing critters up close. A little unsettling when they're angry though.

 

[Corn king 60]

So I came across an injured immature bald eagle by the house this morning on my way to work. Called it in to fish and game. After some help from @zpooch fish and game finally had a raptor center lady call me back and asked me if I could capture it. I said....ummmm I guess so. So I did with a little bit of struggle and they had me deliver it to a vet hospital and a lady from a raptor rehab place is gonna pick him up there. Pretty cool birds. Still in awe by the size of the bird. Pics don't do it justice.

Nice job taking the time from your day to do the right thing
good for you

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Thanks guys, I know most guys around here would do the same thing.

 

[Ben Nicholson]

A few years ago we found a sick (lead poisoning) eagle while shed hunting. When the woman at our raptor center asked if we could catch it, I was pretty sure I’d end up with my jugular ripped open. Welding gloves came in handy. Unfortunately this one didn’t recover.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Welding gloves came in handy. Unfortunately this one didn’t recover

I'll post updates on this guy as I receive them.

Its a bummer that one didn't make it.

 

[Otto Matic]

A couple of months back, the wife and me heard a racket coming from the living room in the middle of the night

The wife investigated and found a barn owl bouncing back and forth across the living room. Apparently, entry was via the fireplace.
She summoned me and I watched the dazed creature going from wall to wall.
I grabbed a hoodie and waited until it crashed into a window and sat dazed. I flipped the hoodie over it and scooped it up.
After a brief inspection, noting no major injuries except pride, I released it outside.

 

[SO7mm]

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

 

[FranklinME]

Thought a weasel was getting my chickens at night when I was about ten years old. A great horned owl in a #1 long spring bites right through a towel FYI

 

[ashersdad]

That is awesome! Good for you. Nicely done.

 

[Hem]

Kudos to you for caring and handling.
Big bird to manage.
I had a Goshawk try and take my head off up in the Crazies one year. Three high speed passes had me booking it the hell out of there.

 

[pyrotechnic]

Kudos to you for caring and handling.
Big bird to manage.
I had a Goshawk try and take my head off up in the Crazies one year. Three high speed passes had me booking it the hell out of there.

Was that in big timber canyon just below the twin lakes? Last summer there was one that had a nest there just off the trail and he/she would do high speed passes inches from your head to run you off.

 

[geewhiz]

Several years ago I saw what appeared to be an injured bald eagle in the borrow pit on my way home from hunting one day. It was standing right on the edge of the road and didn't budge when I drove by. I thought it was odd so I turned around and made a second slow pass. Still wouldn't move and looked unwell. Peculiar. I called FWP and they told me that its not abnormal for an eagle to over eat on a carcass (evidently roadkill) to the point that they can't fly. Learn something new everyday I guess but in any event it was cool to see one so close.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

@geewhiz thats the first thing F&G said to me. But I knew it wasn't right so I investigated further.

Sorry to say that this guy had a broken femur and a shoulder in many pieces. They could not piece him back together and had to euthanize him. Makes me sad. He lives by my house and I was hoping to see him riding the thermals again. With his injuries I assume it had to be a vehicle collision. No happy ending here.

 

[Treeshark]

Rats! I was pulling for a recovery, good on you for doing what you did though.

 

[Corn king 60]

Yeah that sucks.

 

[FranklinME]

Yeah that sucks

 

[LuketheDog]

I did that with a great horned owl last year, so cool to get that close to big birds of prey, those talons are no joke!

 

[Hem]

Was that in big timber canyon just below the twin lakes? Last summer there was one that had a nest there just off the trail and he/she would do high speed passes inches from your head to run you off.

Actually it WAS an area adjacent to Big Timber Canyon...skirting through " somewhere" up Crazy Peak. Could be last summers bird is a distant descendant , my incident was 23-24 years ago.