I do believe that it was the decision by Board of Fire Commissioners that Disband the Racing Team n not the Team members. I understand that the Chief’s of the Department and members aren’t allowed to speak to the media about their side on this disbandment. Won’t make public announcements about mtg’s so the public can voice their opinions. I’m an Alumni of the 40 Thieves and I do believe the media should be allowed to talk to the members , after all they shouldn’t have anything to hide from the public.
Please to pass an approval for a "passive" park similar to the one next to and across from Giovanni's. it's just a tick infested, unmaintained mess of "native" weeds. Vandalism is a threat to the park, I understand, but there has to be a happy medium. the benches are beds for homeless people. see what other towns are doing to avoid both ends of these decisions. Otherwise, maintained grass or synthetic turf (no irrigation/mowing) to allow for at least frisbee and ballgames.
I read this article and feel like whoever is watching this nest and calls themselves a professional is just not. This particular bird cannot stand on the injured leg, it stands on the opposite leg known as the right leg. If you had really truly watched you would have seen that. The bird known by some as Little bit, Little d, #4, and Mini cannot grip with the foot of the injured leg AT ALL. I am a professional observer as a veterinary professional, and have been for over 50 years, and I can see the leg is injured at the knee and possibly the hip level. I believe it is a luxated capella which is very serious in all animals. If not taken care of, the nerve damage alone will render the foot useless. At this point, it appears the nerve damage has already occured. Of course, to prove me wrong it would take a radiograph of the leg. I have heard the tired, old excuse that biologists use for not intervening as we shouldn't interfere with nature. Like possibly it would take down the natural world as we know it today. That was in the middle of last century when they literally couldn't intervene, even if they wanted to, due to locations of them and the nests specific to birds. Often times, if they saw a hatchling fall from a nest, by the time they travelled to the nest from where they viewed nests, the hatchling was already dead either from the fall or exposure. I understand distancing yourself from responsibility of intervening when you literally can't help but this is a new century and we do have ways to intervene successfully. The tricky part is when a fledgling is active.. But, I say if we can make it to the moon or Mars or outer space we can catch a bird flying or not. If you can't figure it out biologist then find an engineer, any engineer, they will figure it out for you. But to say the bird is eating it's food that she/he hasn't caught herself because s/he can't hunt due to the injury is disingenuous. When the parents migrate, the bird will begin to deteriorate causing unnecessary damage to her body before, what then?, you will walk over after s/he is grounded and bend over and pick her/.him up or maybe a cat or dog will get there first? This bird is the 4th hatch and I don’t have to tell you what that means in an Osprey nest. This bird was not only rejected by her/his mother in the beginning, leaving her/him out in the rain with the other three under mother but s/he almost died many times due to starvation and because of her/his perseverance and smarts she figured a way to get fed and stay alive. It would be more than ashamed to see all that die off because she was injured in a probable attempt at fishing or landing. It would be better if she can’t be returned to the wild, to use her as an ambassador to show children through telling her story that perseverance and smarts can pay off. As clever as she is, I don’t doubt that there is someone in these organizations who can be just as clever and help this worthy animal.
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xeuclidhoser3 writes:
Fire department drill team disbands, again
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Osprey watchers notice injured bird