Bob feeding a quickly growing Great Horned Owl. He subsequently asked a volunteer to transport him/her (Bob insisted that I personalize the wild birds and to not refer to them as "it.") to Lubbock.
One of my favorites: Bob holds a baby Inca dove.
Volunteer Pete devotes many hours of his week tending to ducks and geese. Here the Mallards enjoy fresh water.
I think this is a baby Mississippi kite. And that is Bob's hemostats handing him/her a small piece of beef heart.
Common Nightjar.
Terry holds a Burrowing owl. Bob eventually released this owl in a Prairie dog town on a nearby private ranch.
At first, Bob could not figure out the species of the bird shown above; as he/she grew, it became evident she was a cardinal.
Yellow-crowned heron.
Cedar waxwing.
Scissortail Flycatcher.
Woodpecker.
Chris checking on a baby Barn owl. What a belly!
Chris feeds a baby Barn owl.
Chris feeds Mississippi kites. This photo, though, does not show the fifty or so kites that surround Chris as they sit patiently for her to feed them.
A Cliff swallow peers outside the incubator.
Frank gives worms to a nightjar.
A hatchling. Hard to say which species at this point in her life.
Yellow-crowned heron in an aviary outside, raised from a nestling and now only a few weeks away from freedom.
Eastern Kingbird.
Hungry Purple Martins.
A volunteer feeds a Red-shouldered hawk. The hawk eats pieces of beef heart.
Two robins and a mockingbird.
Tiny hatchlings eating worms from Lila's hand.
Nightjar.
Penny feeds a robin.
Tiny!
Pied-billed grebe.
In view of the enormous number of shore birds arriving at Wild Bird Rescue in 2011, raising the cost spent by the organization on food, the Texas Master Naturalists volunteered to catch dinner for them.
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