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Health & Fitness

The Day SBSA Saved a Hawk

One of SBSA’s operators, Veer Ram, was making his rounds at the drying beds on Sunday, July 21,  when he noticed a beautiful, long-legged hawk seemingly being attacked by crows.  The hawk plunged to the drying beds, and was covered with sludge, obviously frightened and disoriented. Operator Jerry Schepis joined Veer and they saw the hawk flopping its wings, as if desperately trying to escape. It was at the edge of the beds, where Jerry and Veer protected him until the Peninsula Humane Society/SPCA arrived about 30 minutes after they called.

            As Jerry has told me, the Control Room crew on other occasions have rescued or freed animals in distress in the area, acts of kindness that no one sees or know about.              Seven weeks later Peninsula Humane Society volunteer Gary Anderson released the hawk in front of our facility on Radio Road in Redwood Shores so that it could return to the wild in the same area it had been rescued by Veer and Jerry.

            Anderson reported, “The hawk arrived at PHS July 21 with a foot injury and had to have one of it digits amputated in early August. PHS staff monitored it for a few weeks to see if it could perch and hunt. After its release, it flew to a grove of trees about 100 yards away and perched.”

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