Just an update.
I was given Logan back, the little guy in the original post.
But that doesn't mean I still can go trapping.
I trapped this guy about 730 tonight.
But the back story is kind of heart wrenching.
We traveled down a road earlier in the day and didn't see anything. So we were heading back and were basically back tracking in hopes of finding a bird.
Well we did.
As we pulled over to get the traps ready a truck was traveling toward us.
As it got closer a couple of hawks took off from the road.
That was unusual. So we drove forward to see why, as we did we saw something that wasn't there an hour earlier.
An adult Harris hawk was killed,hit by a car, the other birds were its kids.
Harris hawks are a family. That means when ones in trouble the rest of the family finds a way to help out.
I have been trapping and seen when one bird in a unit gets trapped the rest of them family goes into panic mode and tries to help out.
I think the kids were trying to get mom out of the road. Very sad to see.
I trapped the kid and I hope to give it a better life.
They say hawks have the intelligence of a 3 to 5 year old.
If my wife had my kids and wound up ran over and dead I would hope someone is compassionate enough to pick my baby up.
I know its a wild animal, but to watch a dead adult be visited by its baby on the side of a road, well it was sad.
As I removed the bird from the trap I promised the mother I would do my best with him.
Hope to not let her down.