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[gne in prog]

nice^^ nuetral density?

thanks. no, cp on that one.

 

[gne in prog]

i'm going to save myself some typing, and just copy/paste a thread i started yesterday on a different forum-

went fly fishing down by my house today. wasn't catching anything worth mentioning, started heading up the river to go home. i fish with my dog, i have a carabiner through the end of his leash and i attach him to me. we came around the bend, and he started barking at a bird sitting on a rock, the bird barely moved.

got closer, and he tried to fly off, but just did a pathetic head dive into the water, got back up and hopped to a different rock-

saddest looking osprey ever-

on the rock-

we got closer, and it was obvious that he was hurt, he just stood in place.

there are so few ospreys near my house, various falcons and hawks are common, and my bird identification skills being worthless, i thought i was looking at a red-tailed hawk. pulled out my phone, looked up the colorado raptor rescue people. saw some low quality photos of red-tailed hawks on their website that looked similar, further making me think he was a hawk. they told me to get some leather gloves, catch him, put him in a cardboard box and they gave me the number of the bird of prey foundation. so i went home quick, dropped off the dog, got a box and gloves and went back. he was still on the same rock he was on when i left.

drove him to the bird of prey foundation, i had told the lady on the phone it was a red tailed hawk, she looked into the box and exclaimed, "holy s***, it's an osprey!" she apologized for cursing, saying that they get them very rarely. it was just their 2nd one in over a year, and she said they've gone as long as 5 years without getting any. as it was after hours, she was there alone and had me help carry the box in, and get him out.

he was emaciated, she estimated he hadn't eaten in at least a week, but he still had a lot of fight in him. after a brief display of the correct way to do it, she had me hold his feet while she put antibiotic on his wound. it was a puncture wound on his wing, but the wing wasn't broken.

other wing-

don't want to let go with talons like these-

tail-

then she weighed him, he came in at 1140 grams.

after that, she mixed up a fish paste food, put it in a syringe with a hose off the end of it. she placed the tube down his throat, and had me push the plunger of the syringe while she held his head.

he spit up a little after it-

then she put him in a cage,

and showed me a few of the other birds that were there.

(a red tailed hawk)

filled out a little paperwork, and she asked me to name him. i named him "olaf the conquerer". she said that the wing would probably take around 3 weeks to heal, but he was already late for the migration and would miss it. so once he can fly, they'll put him in their flight enclosure until spring when the northerly migration takes place.

(contact info redacted)

and here is the river monster i caught that wasn't worth mentioning. in fact, i almost casted again, unaware he was even on the hook until i started to strip a little line-

 

[Tld]

Wow! Great story and amazing photos! Keep us posted on Olaf's progress. So cool, and props for your efforts, :clap:I probably woud have been too scared to approach him, even with leather gloves.

 

[FlyingSig]

Very cool GNE

 

[sparky]

nice pics...

 

[mdspytko]

:clap:

Great story and kudo's to you for helping it out.

 

[The Gardener]

Is that a smile?

I was fishing as a kid in Colorado as well and came across a sparrow hawk. It was having some issues, so we caught it in a on of our t shirts and took it home. After a very short time it was safe to handle and seemed to be getting along just fine. I fed it for several days and eventually released the fella back into the wild. I don't know why but he was also starving and sickly but after a few days he seemed good to go. Neat experience, glad you were able to get Olaf sorted out!

 

[tlewis95]

My student got on the brakes a little bit hard (check out the left main tire) today in the 182RG. This is the view from the pickup towing us off of the runway.

 

[scooter2525]

Cool story GNE! thats awesome you were able to help the little guy out.

 

[Adler]

Nice one GNE!

On a separate note, it would be awesome if you voted on my picture here

http://flightaware.com/photos/
(scroll down)

 

[gne in prog]

 

[mshunter]

Wow! I didn't know anybody privately owned a F5! I'd want a T38 though, I'd want to take passengers

Took this with the cell phone. Man would I love to take this for a spin!

You can buy a bunch of fighters, that one looks really old too. When the Swiss air force got rid of the Mirage 2000 you were able to buy them, the first F5s that we had, got sold for 100K dollars each, no I'm not kidding. Now they are selling Alouette III helicopters for close to nothing....In the past we sold the P3 trainers for 40K dollars each (most of them went to the US). The reason of this is that there is a law in the constitution that does not allow Switzerland to sell military stuff to a huge list of countries (black list), not many countries outside that list would by such old equipments, so they get sold to privates.

Actually these guys "build" them and sell them as experimental's. They take advantage of the 51% rule. They go out and find a few parts, assemble them, and then get the feds to sign off on them as experimental. The T-38's and F-5's they build all have working ejection seats as well. Someone ordered a purple'ish T-38. I refused to take a picture of it simply because of it's color. And yes, the F-5's are old, all of them. They have been out of production for 25+ years. But this one has been around for a while at VNY. I think this is one of those airplanes that is extremely undervalued as to it's contribution it could have made to the US military. It's nimble, fast, and small. I think the main reason it didn't fare well was because of how much it could carry.

 

[gne in prog]

one more i liked from today-

 

[gne in prog]

one more from tonight that i didn't like-

 

[Bumblebee]

where is that?

 

[gne in prog]

^if you were at jeffco for the boulder fire, it's about the same distance from denver but to the southwest. just burning up the "hogback", the first row of hills before the mountains start. not threatening houses, but putting up some impressive flames and smoke. it's moving north, which is good for me, as i took that at the end of my street about a mile south of it.

they said it was contained earlier, but it got windy again at sunset and flared back up. with the amount of equipment and people on it, i imagine they'll have it contained again by morning.

 

[Bumblebee]

^if you were at jeffco for the boulder fire, it's about the same distance from denver but to the southwest. just burning up the "hogback", the first row of hills before the mountains start. not threatening houses, but putting up some impressive flames and smoke. it's moving north, which is good for me, as i took that at the end of my street about a mile south of it.

they said it was contained earlier, but it got windy again at sunset and flared back up. with the amount of equipment and people on it, i imagine they'll have it contained again by morning.

I didn't make it out there for that one...but it's slow here.

 

[Bandit_Driver]

GNE awesome pics and awesome job with the bird.

on another note what type of camera do you use?

 

[ShyFlyer]

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.


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[MattXJ7]

a couple from TOA-HND from this weekend :bandit:

the picture quality turned out to be pretty good from an iphone