Hi All,
Forgive me for cross-posting from Birdchat but I couldn't resist passing
this on to birding-ausers, please note the names of the two participants
mentioned.....coincidence?
Tom
The following story was in an online magazine called Salon.
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Sept. 9, 2002 | ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) -- "Call 911! I have a hawk
stuck to my arm."
It didn't take long for gas station customers to see Jamie Wing wasn't
kidding.
A red-tailed hawk collided with Wing's pickup truck Thursday, and after
she freed the bird's wing from the side-view mirror, the hawk invaded
the truck, bit Wing's lip and then sank its talons into her right arm.
Wing, 38, said she threw a coat over the bird,tried without success to
get it off her arm -- and then drove to the nearest highwayexit."Every
time you touched the bird, it gripped harder," she said.
"There was a point where it got so painful that I was going to reach
down and break its neck myself, butI love animals and I realized the
bird was in shock and pain.
"Firefighters administered morphine to help ease Wing's pain, and two
women from the nearby Sarvey Wildlife Center pulled the hawk off her
arm. Wing was treated at a local hospital for puncture wounds on her
right arm, hand and thumb."I feel lucky it didn't chew me up more," she
said.
The hawk had to be euthanized because both wingswere broken too badly to
heal or be repaired, said Kestrel SkyHawk, who cares for birds of prey
at the center and is on its board of directors.
--
Jay Greenberg <>
Rochester, NY
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Tom and Marie Tarrant
Lot 10 (137) Watson Rd
Samsonvale
Queensland 4520
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