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Winter Wanderland

10,000 Birds

It is mid-March and I am back in Colorado for meetings. The same Townsend’s Solitaire I dipped on last time in Colorado. Coming down from the emotional high we noticed our grumbling stomachs: time to eat. All bird and animal pictures are Brad’s. We had time for another stop at Little Scraggy Trailhead.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. wrote Heilke in Colorado. Summer is high season.

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Intake

10,000 Birds

The day I brought him home, two of my 17-year-old daughter’s friends were visiting from Colorado. My rehabber friend had just lost several animals in a row, and the previous night she put her faith in the determined-looking hawk who had been perching in his crate when she went to bed. “What happened?” I asked, in disbelief. “I