Hucks uses these two - both with permanent injuries - in her educational programs. In a comer cage, red phase and gray phase screech owls look skeptical. My grandmother had always loved owls." Inside the house Hucks shares with her three children, four orphaned screech owls have begun a soft trill in their cages inside a small indoor porch. I'm not a New Age type, but there was a connection there. Though she's bottle-raised beavers, rabbits and squirrels, she's known around this small Pender County community as "the owl lady." "The first bird of prey that was ever brought to me was a barred owl," she says. After a few years of rehabilitating, she adopted raptors as her specialty. A free-lance writer and wildlife educator, Hucks was mentored by an experienced Wilmington rehabilitator and consults regularly with the Charlotte Raptor Center. "That taught me never to hand anything to a hawk unless you have gloves on," she says. Concerned, Hucks cupped a handful of chicken livers beneath the bird's beak, and it grabbed her wrist with its talon. But when the hawk first arrived, it was too stressed to eat. Wounded by a bullet, the desper- ate, emaciated bird was found chasing kittens on someone's porch. "They'll put their feet up to defend themselves before anything else," she says, sparring with the animal. The hawk leans its shoulders back and raises its claws. "In a cage, they look pretty benign but if you get up on them, they can be very formi- dable." She raises two gloved forearms toward Ranger in what looks like a martial arts stance. "A man donated this kennel after I raised a nest of Carolina wrens he brought me," she says, moving toward a permanent red-tailed resident she calls Ranger. "It's said they can hear the heartbeat of a mouse under a foot of snow." She moves into a spacious covered chainlink pen, where two soggy hawks await dinner. "And their hearing is excellent," she says. Publisher: Ĭontributing Library: State Library of North Carolinaĭigitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage CenterĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Subjects: Marine resources Oceanography Coastal zone management Coastal ecology Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Public domain photo of Saint Mark's Basilica in the late nineteenth century that was altered with the Topaz DeJPEG plug-in, then the Topaz DeNoise plug-in, then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (violent vermilion effect), then the Topaz Clean plug-in (edge boost effect), then the Topaz Clarity plug-in (contrast boost edgy effect), then the Topaz Clean plug-in (cartoon detailed effect), then the Alien Skin Exposure X3 plug-in (center clarity effect), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then JixiPix Artoon (vectoon effect), then the Alien Skin Exposure X3 plug-in (center clarity effect), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Alien Skin Exposure X3 plug-in (clarity brush and center clarity effect), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz Clarity plug-in (micro color boost effect), then the Alien Skin Exposure X3 plug-in (center clarity effect), then the ON1 Photo 10 plug-in (daylight effect), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Alien Skin Exposure X3 plug-in (clarity brush), then the Photoshop paintbrush, then the Topaz ReStyle plug-in (blue dreams effect), and then the Photoshop paintbrush.
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