hawk rescue!

Rolf (pictured above, holding the hawk) found an injured hawk on his property (which borders Camp Evergreen). Part of one of the hawk's wings was missing, so it couldn't fly (well, it "flew" like a chicken does). Rolf called the good people at the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation, who told us to catch it and then they'd come pick it up. So we did. And it was very exciting. The hawk was beautiful and terrifying all at once. Some of the grade six outdoor education kids who were here when we found the hawk were able to see it (from afar, of course), which is a neat addition to the nature study curriculum.

Hawky McHawkerson is now hanging out the Conservation people. They're going to fix his wing, which is broken, and once his bones are healed and his feathers have regrown, they'll bring him back to where we caught him, to release him back in the wild. A happy story, right?