In early March I was driving on I-10 east outside Columbus
when I noticed a raptor on the side of the highway only a few feet from passing
vehicles. It did not appear dead so I
swung around on the feeder road to capture it.
It didn’t notice me approaching until I threw a t-shirt over it and
brought it back to my car. I found a box
at a gas station to transport it to Angleton where I took it to the Gulf Coast wildlife
Rescue facilities (Donate to http://www.gcwr.org/). This non-profit was operated by Dana
Simon. She identified it as a mature male
redtail hawk. This was a large male but
mature females are always larger. The
diagnosis was it suffered a head trauma but no broken bones or wings. She was confident it would be rehabilitated
within a month. It recovered within 10
days and I was allowed to release it back in the wild on a country road away
not far from where it was captured.
Be free beautiful raptor. Return to the bosom of Mother Earth!
