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Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S.
Great horned owl young are well known to be very resilient even when they're on the ground before they might want to be. This guy went out of the nest too early, was found bruised, weak, and starving on the ground. A raptor rehabber I work with buffed him up (stuffed with pinkie mice) and I put him back up when he was ready. His sister is much bigger and very aggressive, she may have bumped him out of the nest. Homeowner found it next to her driveway and sought help. I did some nest work, what they were using was essentially a floppy diving board.
Tech notes: I recently sewed up a new double eye 15' lanyard with segmented stitching for improved wrap/grip on smaller diameter wood. Also built a new 50' hook line with 9mm PMI EZ-Bend. I left the sewn eye open enough so I can fit a carabiner in the shared hook shackle eye when I want to do a hard choke/closed anchor. I'm finding that wrapping a timber hitch with the hook as a stopper is still my favorite closed anchor with the hook line.
-AJ
Tech notes: I recently sewed up a new double eye 15' lanyard with segmented stitching for improved wrap/grip on smaller diameter wood. Also built a new 50' hook line with 9mm PMI EZ-Bend. I left the sewn eye open enough so I can fit a carabiner in the shared hook shackle eye when I want to do a hard choke/closed anchor. I'm finding that wrapping a timber hitch with the hook as a stopper is still my favorite closed anchor with the hook line.
-AJ
