Baby Great Horned Owl

After months and months of care and learning to hunt for themselves numerous owls were released back into the wild.

While at DVWR this baby owl will be fed a specialized diet to strengthen bones.

An open neck wound on the grebe is healing nicely. Before flight, the hawk chatted with Evelyn.

Using a red headlamp to preserve her and bird’s night vision, Evelyn tube fed dehydrated and starving Ibis & Avocets late into the night.   A small percentage  survived the botulism outbreak at Carson Lake and Stillwater near Fallon that killed thousands of birds.  The ones in Evelyn’s care are weak, yet some are beginning to…

A sleepy baby Swainson’s Hawk arrived at DVWR.  A very kindly bird lover and member of the Audubon Society found the hawk that had been blown from its nest in Elko and together they drove to Fallon!  Along the way, a Fallon NDOW biologist was able to monitor care & feeding, thank goodness for cell phone…