The Patients at Return to the Wild

Baby Screech Owls

Baby Eastern Screech Owls

These two nestlings are Eastern Screech Owls.  The tree they were nesting in was cut down.  Their 3 siblings sadly died from the accident, but these two are doing well and will be released in the fall.



Red-tailed Hawk

Test flight

RTTW’s secretary Dom launches a Red-tailed hawk on a test flight to see if it’s time to be released.  The creance (leash) keeps the bird from flying away.  Once we’re sure everything’s ok, the bird is returned to the wild!



Our Patients

Here you’ll see a few of our patients.  We have a lot of youngsters in the spring and summer, perhaps because they’ve fallen from a nest in a storm, or the result of a logging operation or building demolition.  At all times in the year we take in adults that have been struck by cars, either while on the wing or because the bird was scavenging road-kill.  Our vet is an expert in avian medicene, and without her we couldn’t do what we do!