Yesterday was Nikki’s Birthday and I would like to wish her a Happy Birthday! We didn’t do much special for her birthday, she wanted to clean the house and get rid of some old stuff we haven’t touched in a while. We cleaned our bedroom, closet and file cabinet. We took the stuff from our file cabinet to the mobile shred-it unit that was stationed outside of the Granville Market. We made two trips to the Denison recycle drop off station to dispose of some old magazines and made a trip to Goodwill to drop off some clothes we don’t wear anymore.
The last couple of weeks Nikki and I have been trying to go out as often as we can to either walk or ride bikes. Friday we took a walk on Sugar Loaf hill in Granville with our dog Phoebe. We saw a twin fawns on the walk and were able to get within 10 yards of them. We tried to take some pictures with our phones, but it was just dark enough where the pictures turned out blurry.
Saturday we took a bike ride on the bike path from Wildwood Park towards Newark and Cherry Valley Road and on the bike path we saw twin baby raccoons. They were very busy on their way to who knows what, but they were walking right along the bike path and oblivious to us as we walked next to them after parking our bikes to take a closer look.
Less than an hour later we were to meet the kids in town and pick them up and head to Bob Evans for dinner for Father’s Day and Nikki’s Birthday. We got to CVS to pick the kids up and found out that they were still on the Denison Entrance Road with a pair of Red Tail Hawk chicks. There was a college student there with them and they had apparently fallen out of their nest a couple of days before. The student was on a visa to be here for school and didn’t know who to contact to have someone care for the chicks as the parents had abandoned them and were only taking care of the one chick left in the nest. We found someone on a Saturday who is registered with the state to rehabilitate raptors and release them back into the wild. We made a phone call and she was not able to come pick them up until tomorrow and asked if we could take them for the night to keep them off the road. We happened to have a small aviary in our back yard and a tote in our car to scoop up the chicks for the night. As promised she came the next morning and took the chicks who were both still doing remarkably well after a little bit of ground chuck as prescribed by the raptor rescue lady. We hope both chicks will survive and be released back into the wild.
One of the Red Tail Hawk Chicks that were rescued after blowing out of their nest during the storm we had last Thursday morning
We would like to wish Fathers that we know a Happy Father’s Day and hope everyone had a good day with family and friends.