Whew, What A Whirlwind
June 11, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Sue McCreadie Reports:
Oh my gosh what a whirlwind we have been on for the last few days. Thanks goodness I have a girlfriend Sally who gets up really early. This morning she beat us to the Bridge. I had gone to the store to get a few groceries to make lunch and Bill had head down to the Bridge. As I was making lunch, my doorbell rang and there stood Sally with a very wet baby peregrine under her arm. When she had arrived at the bridge, Jimmy (green band) was apparently walking the pier and when she parked her car, she saw him take off and try to land on the hand railing of the lift bridge. He couldn’t quite make it and landed in the canal. He started swimming (the wing stroke). She tried to snag him with a tangled up dog leash, and as she was doing so, she prayed that someone would come along. Lo and behold, a fisherman came along and between the two of them, a fishing rod and net they were able to rescue him. Now, Sally has a very wet baby peregrine under her arm and she wonders what to a do now. So she grabs a liner from the dog bed in the car and stuffs baby Jimmy into a crock pot she has and off she drives to my house. She and Bill must have passed one another on the way so she stuffs Jimmy back under her arm and back to the Lift Bridge she goes where Bill and David Williams were waiting with the rescue box and towels. We put him in the garage to calm down. A call was placed to Mark Nash. Mark arrived shortly after lunch and after a quick examination Jimmy looks just fine. He will be held over until this evening when Mark will examine him again and release him from the roof of the Lift Bridge Tower. Thank goodness for Sally and her early rising and the unknown fisherman who answered her prayers.
Carrey spent the best part of the day still on the roof where he was released last evening. Dad delivered a food packet to him there. Around 3:00 this afternoon he decided to fly and with a couple of missed landings had to circle the towers a few times. He landed safely on one of the beams on the Burlington Tower.
Port Hope is still hanging out in the nest box.
My goodness, what will this evening bring.
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