Thursday, August 15, 2024
Since leaving the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, we drove to Wisconsin and turned southwest landing in Antigo late Tuesday afternoon. In May of 2023 we were last here in Antigo. It was our second time to work a project with “A Year To Volunteer” at the Raptor Education Group, Inc. REGI is a nonprofit organization that rehabilitates injured birds and educates the public about birds in general. They specialize in raptors. We met with Marge, the Director of REGI, Wednesday. It was so good to see her and the staff again. We had a great time catching up with each other. Today we returned to REGI to sit in with one of the tour groups visiting the center. This tour was hosted by Samantha, the Director of Education. She does such a great job with the tours and all the birds. While most of the birds they take in are rehabilitated and released, the birds used during the tours are non-releasable for various reasons so they become ambassador birds for REGI. They live a very comfortable life and are very well cared for. One of the owls we saw today we saw last year, shortly after he was rescued. He had grown so much! Those of you who have read the blog for very long know how much we love owls. Well, owls and eagles and hummingbirds, etc. We just really enjoy birds. Today’s favorite owl was the Northern Saw-whet Owl. Too Cute! Saw-whet Owls are some of the smallest owl species in North America. They can be found in dense thickets, often at eye level although they can also be found some 20 ft up in trees.
We are probably going to take another rain day tomorrow to just catch up on things and then move again Saturday. Hope you are all having a great week.
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