The Rescue of a Hawk - by Gail Jensen Sanford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by Juliane McAdam

 

Note:  This is a one-time article about a group of neighbors who worked together to bring about a successful bird rescue.

 

April, 2014      The Rescue of a Hawk  

 

To these boys I am probably just another nearly invisible old lady. We co-exist in space, but occupy separate realities. That is, until two days after Christmas, when I return from some errands, and drive up the hill just in time to see a young man set aside his skateboard to cross the street and climb directly up into one of the Cypress trees in my front yard. It has never occurred to me that the tree could be climbed. I stop the car and ask one of his friends if I should drive around the block and pretend I don’t live there. He replies, “We just saw a bird fall into the tree.”