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October 8th 2012

A week ago, my Dad's friend came across an injured Red Tailed Hawk in our home town. I have always been the go to person when it comes to anyone I know coming across anything wild. We named him Lucky and took him home for the night where he was kept safe in a warm, dark and quiet place in our shed and the next day we took him an hour away to a wildlife rehabilitation centre where he was taken care and recovered.

Click Here to see the picture of the night I rescued him before taking him to the rehabilitation centre

A week after we dropped him off at the centre, he was deemed releasable. His head had healed nicely, new downy feathers were beginning to regrow from where he had hit his head against the cage. His wing didn't appear to be severely injured and he was test flown and shot off like a rocket. He also started eating on his own again, ate 4 mice yesterday and was in great condition to be released back into the wild. So we went to pick him up this morning to take him back near the area he was found.

*NOTE* I want to let anyone who sees this picture know that we didn't put him under any unneeded stress to get this picture. I took him out of the box to see the condition of his feathers before I let him go. We snapped a few pictures, said our goodbyes and we released him back into the wild where he belongs.

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Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada
October 2012
Photo © Ariel Bartlett / ~AniuLonewolf
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Description
October 8th 2012

A week ago, my Dad's friend came across an injured Red Tailed Hawk in our home town. I have always been the go to person when it comes to anyone I know coming across anything wild. We named him Lucky and took him home for the night where he was kept safe in a warm, dark and quiet place in our shed and the next day we took him an hour away to a wildlife rehabilitation centre where he was taken care and recovered.

Click Here to see the picture of the night I rescued him before taking him to the rehabilitation centre

A week after we dropped him off at the centre, he was deemed releasable. His head had healed nicely, new downy feathers were beginning to regrow from where he had hit his head against the cage. His wing didn't appear to be severely injured and he was test flown and shot off like a rocket. He also started eating on his own again, ate 4 mice yesterday and was in great condition to be released back into the wild. So we went to pick him up this morning to take him back near the area he was found.

*NOTE* I want to let anyone who sees this picture know that we didn't put him under any unneeded stress to get this picture. I took him out of the box to see the condition of his feathers before I let him go. We snapped a few pictures, said our goodbyes and we released him back into the wild where he belongs.

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Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada
October 2012
Photo © Ariel Bartlett / ~AniuLonewolf
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Thank you very much for your support of my gallery
Please feel free to comment, I would love to hear what you think of this photo