http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/invasion-of-the-giant-pythons/photos-python-digesting-a-rat/5554/ X-rays of one digesting a rat.

PATIENT:  Bald Eagle, #10-2153

LOCATION OF RESCUE:   Caroline County

CAUSE OF INJURY:   Struck by vehicle — perhaps twice?

ADMISSION DATE:  October 29

PROGNOSIS:  Guarded

On October 28, a truck driver in Caroline County hit a juvenile Bald Eagle after the bird walked out onto the road.  The driver contacted Carolina County Animal Control,Eagle who took the eagle to Hanover Green Veterinary Clinic in Mechanicsville.  Wildlife rehabilitator Barbara Slatcher picked up the eagle and took it to fellow rehabilitator Debbie Pupa for stabilization and overnight care.   

Debbi  found that the eagle had an open fracture of its right humerus – the bone had penetrated the eagle’s skin, greatly increasing the risk of infection.  Debbie cleaned the wound, treated the bird for maggots, and wrapped the bird’s wing for stabilization.

On the morning of October 29, Bill Pupa [Debbie's husband] drove the eagle to the Wildlife Center’s clinic in Waynesboro. The eagle was assigned patient number #10-2153 and is the 19th Bald Eagle admitted for treatment thus far in 2010.

Eagle examDr. Kelly Flaminio examined the Bald Eagle and found that the bird is in poor condition.  Because of the extensive maggot infestation, Dr. Kelly believes that the eagle was likely injured earlier in the week — perhaps Tuesday or Wednesday.   The eagle’s wing has two large puncture wounds in its wing from the broken bone – one in the front, and a fresher wound in the back.  Perhaps the eagle had been struck by a vehicle earlier in the week [wound #1] and then suffered a second wound when it was struck by the truck on October 28.

Dr. Kelly anesthetized the bird, flushed and cleaned its wounds, and stabilized the fracture.  The eagle has received pain medications, antibiotics, and fluids and is being housed in the Center’s critical-care chamber.

If the bird is stable, on Saturday [October 30] Dr. Miranda Sadar and Dr. Kelly will further assess the eagle’s condition, including its eyes, and will determine if it is possible to operate on the bird to pin the fractured humerus.

And, of course, every Hollywood eagle sounds just like a red-tailed hawk.

 

Movie-makers love to add bird sounds to a film, to evoke a mood or set a scene. For all the attention to some details though, nature’s details often get a little mixed up… like an Australian Laughing Kookaburra guffawing in the depths of the Florida Everglades? For a jungle sound, it’s hard to beat the territorial call of this Pied-billed Grebe, a bird that is widespread and common across the US.

http://birdnote.s3.amazonaws.com/Birdnote/2005/October/101028-Bird-Songs-Go-to-Hollywood.mp3  Check it out.

Way to go Joyce..good job! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11574073 Pretty neat. Follow that microlight: Birds learn to migrate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSi3_izdRZE&feature=related Cute song   

OK, here's Friday's WAI?

I won't know until Friday myself, so guess away.

I'm going to say a Black-throated Blue Warbler!
                       

You are absolutely correct MAK-a roni! I thought this was going to be a toughie. NOT! Good job! 

http://www.whatdigitalcamera.com/news/504054/interview-with-young-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-fergus-gill.html What a great pic!

Ok, Y is for  Yaffle

a common European woodpecker (Picus viridis)

What a view she has. (Bobbin)

The Cathedral Falcons, male on left, T2 on right. The male reminds me of Kaver. 

Pic below from 11pm last night, significant event despite the motion blur. Shows Bobbin with just caught prey proving the point as with The Derby birds that she does hunt at night as we suspected. She hovered over the perch for a couple of seconds before flying off to feed elsewhere, not sure why. Will work on an Infrared camera for the perch giving full night vision without the motion blur....Dave

Very cool night shot

Bobbin in daylight  the name Bobbin

X for Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus........   

had to go for Latin but in common names it is the Yellow-headed Blackbird

X is for Xavier's Greenbul



  MAK