June 11th, 2009

 Ok. This is going to be a sad one, so I’m sorry to all of the bird lovers reading this. Early today, Will Hobbs (the club naturalist) and I went down to Columbus Beach South because a beach cleaner had seen an “injured bird.” (Just so you know, the reason that I use quotation marks there is because oftentimes a big bird like the one we found will pretend to be injured to lure people away from her nest if she has one) So, we went down, and discovered that the “injured bird” was in fact injured. Will and I think that it hit a rock while diving for fish. Then, Will wrapped it up in a sheet that he had brought, and I got to drive the cart back to the ELC (oh yeah!). We set  it in a cage, but when Will first tried to move it in the cage the great long beak had an attempt at getting his throat (that could’ve ended really badly…he was so lucky). Later, we found out that the bird was fatally injured, and will sadly probably have to be euthanized to put him out of his misery (poor guy…even though he did try to injure us).

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