Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 18:52:57 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Dead Red-Tail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am very distressed over an incident this afternoon that ended in the death of a Red-Tail Hawk. If anyone has any advice or input on what I could have done, please pass along the information. (forgive me for a non-birding related post but hopefully some help for future similar incidents may be provided). A women came into the store this afternoon who had just been at CLARKS-DO-IT CENTER in Ellicott city. She said a red-tail had flown in the store and was "crashing around" trying to get out. She was very concerned about the bird and was looking for help. The store employees supposedly refused to help or do anything and told her "birds have crashed into our windows before and died". I then tried calling every re-habber and person I could think of that might be able to help without being able to reach anyone. After an hour Judy Holzman returned my call and I explained the situation and she said she would make calls to try to get the bird help. She called up to CLARKS-DO-IT- CENTER and they told her the bird had "crashed into a window and died" then they had supposedly "disposed of the body"?? I offer advice for people that have songbirds that get into their house (turning the lights out-darkening the room and opening the door). Raptors of course pose a real problem. Does anyone know how could this bird have gotten immediate help?? (VERY ANGRY!! and will never go to CLARKS-DO -IT CENTER again) Bonnie Ott Ellicott city,Howard County bonnie1163@home.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================