Got to use the Tahoe as an "ambulance "

So my wife and i were headed home yesterday afternoon, and i could see something in the road ahead of us. She looked up at the right time and saw it too, then asked was that alive? I said yeah as i braked to do a U turn and hit the stability button because i didnt want to be "nannied" with the maneuver i was about to pull. So through the median and full throttle turn to go back and check out the scene.


Sitting on the stripe between the slow and passing lanes. Broken right wing but seemed okay other than that. So i told her to get the blanket from the back of the Tahoe and lay it out on the hood. And i gently worked the injured wing as best i could to the body and grabbed him up, set him on the blanket and with light wrapping got in the passenger seat. I said head the the vets office they close in 15 minutes, and we got there and dropped it off for the local wildlife refuge to get today. It was banded on its leg so it had been captured before. May be why it was so docile when it was in the truck.

Beautiful hawk - those eyes! Red Tail?

We are lucky in Western Mass. to have a retired EPO start a rehabilitation center for injured birds of prey. He is busier now, than ever before! No shortage of bird strikes on the roads up here...
Those centers do a lot of great work getting birds back in the air and in the wild.

damn your brave. mother nature loves you for that act.

i came across not one, but two dead birds today, ( i landscape) had the tell tail signs of a bird of prey attack. carcass and feathers exploded out in a 2 foot circle. if you ever seen a hawk nail another bird on the ground. the prey's feathers just go ****! one there was nothing left, the other i suppose it felt safe enough to chow down right there. i got hawks and other birds of prey all over the place here.

Nice. We have more hawks than I can ever remember around here now.

Mudsport96 said:

So my wife and i were headed home yesterday afternoon, and i could see something in the road ahead of us. She looked up at the right time and saw it too, then asked was that alive? I said yeah as i braked to do a U turn and hit the stability button because i didnt want to be "nannied" with the maneuver i was about to pull. So through the median and full throttle turn to go back and check out the scene.

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Sitting on the stripe between the slow and passing lanes. Broken right wing but seemed okay other than that. So i told her to get the blanket from the back of the Tahoe and lay it out on the hood. And i gently worked the injured wing as best i could to the body and grabbed him up, set him on the blanket and with light wrapping got in the passenger seat. I said head the the vets office they close in 15 minutes, and we got there and dropped it off for the local wildlife refuge to get today. It was banded on its leg so it had been captured before. May be why it was so docile when it was in the truck.

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Awesome man good job!!!

That's what I call passion, breaking your wing just to ride Tahoe...

MassHoe04 said:

Beautiful hawk - those eyes! Red Tail?

We are lucky in Western Mass. to have a retired EPO start a rehabilitation center for injured birds of prey. He is busier now, than ever before! No shortage of bird strikes on the roads up here...
Those centers do a lot of great work getting birds back in the air and in the wild.

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Yup juvenile/sub-adult redtail. Ive seen several road kills in the last month and was like not this time.

Update as of 5 pm. It made it through last night at the vet. And was transferred to the wildlife place today.

I’m fishing off the West Coast of O’ahu. We had been camping for the 3 day weekend and the family was packing up to go home. I figured I would throw out my line for one last chance at catching something. At first light I caught an octopus, but that’s another story.

I picked my nice shiny, floating Yonimura lure. It basically floats until you pull it then it dives. Once you stop pulling it floats to the surface. So I’m using my 10’ surf casting rod and I’m throwing it out past the surf and dragging it in. About 10 minutes into the session I notice 2 Frigate birds flying perpendicular to the beach.

The sparkling lure drew one of the birds attention and it dove on it immediately. In a gut reaction I pulled hard, really hard hoping the the lure would dive deeper than the bird could dive. It was a good try, but the bird emerged from the water with my lure firmly in its beak and started flying away.

To make a long story short it took me around 20 minutes to get the bird down on the beach and another 15 to get the hook out of its mouth. I had to get a blanket and cover its body & bill. After the hook was removed it almost flew away with the blanket, but luckily my daughter had a firm hold on the blanket. Blankets are a good thing to keep handy as you never know when you’ll need one. A moving blanket is good too.

My ex-father in law just laughed his butt off. An octopus in the morning and a Frigate bird in the evening. What a fisherman! Aloha!

Blanket or towel is always handy