My First Pelican Rescue
This is my first time blogging so let me introduce myself, my name is Kim and Im a paraprofessional bird rescuer for the Suncoast Seabird Santuary. Im a native Floridian and when the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill occured, I knew I had to do something to help our wonderful,beautiful,majestic sea birds. So I went to the SSS and signed up to help. I was trained by some of the most incredible,intelligent,patient men and women who have dedicated their lives to helping save injured birds. My heartfelt thanks go out to each and everyone who trained me and continue to add to my growing knowledge of bird rescue, recuperation and release. As you can see by the smile on my face when I picked up that first pelican I was hooked, it felt incredible and was so very rewarding to help that wonderful, playful bird. He had several fishing hooks in his wing and was wrapped in fishing line. He has been restored to his healthy self and was released back to the wild, where he should be. As you can see in the second picture I'm holding two pelicans, they were tied together with fishing line, I have no Idea how long they were connected, but I do know they were slowly starving to death (it broke my heart) we patiently waited as the tide pushed them out of our reach and then brought them back to the point where we could almost get them, ( always just a few more feet) but finally after several hours we were able to get our hands on them. I had the pleasure of holding them while the woman who was training me ran down the sea wall to pick up another pelican who had gotten into the fishing line and washed up on the breaker wall. Whew that was a very busy Pelican Rescue day. I believe we brought in 7 pelicans and a few gulls that day. Many people I meet suggested I write about my adventures of rescue, so here I am with my first blog. I will be adding more stories of my exciting life of Bird Rescue. And agian Thank You for all those who have helped me and continue to do so in my ongoing training. God Bless and best wishes to all. And dont forget if you see and bird in need of medical help please call the Suncoast Seabird Santuary, we are always on the alert to help our friends in need!
This is my first time blogging so let me introduce myself, my name is Kim and Im a paraprofessional bird rescuer for the Suncoast Seabird Santuary. Im a native Floridian and when the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill occured, I knew I had to do something to help our wonderful,beautiful,majestic sea birds. So I went to the SSS and signed up to help. I was trained by some of the most incredible,intelligent,patient men and women who have dedicated their lives to helping save injured birds. My heartfelt thanks go out to each and everyone who trained me and continue to add to my growing knowledge of bird rescue, recuperation and release. As you can see by the smile on my face when I picked up that first pelican I was hooked, it felt incredible and was so very rewarding to help that wonderful, playful bird. He had several fishing hooks in his wing and was wrapped in fishing line. He has been restored to his healthy self and was released back to the wild, where he should be. As you can see in the second picture I'm holding two pelicans, they were tied together with fishing line, I have no Idea how long they were connected, but I do know they were slowly starving to death (it broke my heart) we patiently waited as the tide pushed them out of our reach and then brought them back to the point where we could almost get them, ( always just a few more feet) but finally after several hours we were able to get our hands on them. I had the pleasure of holding them while the woman who was training me ran down the sea wall to pick up another pelican who had gotten into the fishing line and washed up on the breaker wall. Whew that was a very busy Pelican Rescue day. I believe we brought in 7 pelicans and a few gulls that day. Many people I meet suggested I write about my adventures of rescue, so here I am with my first blog. I will be adding more stories of my exciting life of Bird Rescue. And agian Thank You for all those who have helped me and continue to do so in my ongoing training. God Bless and best wishes to all. And dont forget if you see and bird in need of medical help please call the Suncoast Seabird Santuary, we are always on the alert to help our friends in need!
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