justin_o_guy2
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What happened?
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Looked up Cooper's hawk. Thought, looks like a red tail to me. And I'm not any kind of expert on birds. So looked up Red tails, apparently they are bigger and Coopers have a black cap. Once in a while I get the pleasure of a hawk circling. But not close enough to see defining characteristics. Coupla times I got to see one dive and grab something only to hustle off to a distant limb to savor the flavor of the victim.
In the No Kiddin!!?? department, a guy I knew saw a red tail get hit by a pickup. It was flopping around in the ditch and he scooped it up and brought it to me. I bought some heavy leather gloves, opened a pound of burger meat,had a fat straw from a malt and I held it and he loaded the straw and blew meat in its mouth. After a week or so it was getting stronger so I got leg thigh quarters and let it walk around in the yard and I teased it till it snagged the chicken outta my hand. OhhHolyCrap! That thing was so quick, if it had gotten a piece of the glove idk how it would have gone. After it chowed down I saw meat poking out between feathers on its neck, so I called the vet I thought worked on birds. They said Yes, so I hauled her in there. I didn't get ten feet in the door before they were hollering at me to Get that thing outta there.
Works out, there's a ten Thousand dollar fine just for having one. I called them and they gave me a number for a licensed rehab bird specialist.
It had a busted wing, hole in its gullet and blind in one eye.
She chewed me out and asked why I didn't call her first.
Only answer I had was
The darned bird didn't have your number.
It was a heckuva interesting time in my life, trying to save that bird.
Aaand, back to the show.
Hope that wasn't too boring.
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