How I came to the Bird TLC

Hi everyone, I have some time so I thought I would share some information with you all about how I came to live at the Bird Treatment and Learning Center. When I was younger I lived in Cordova. I was hungry and looking for some lunch when I found something tasty looking to eat. When I grabbed it so I could eat it, it grabbed me back. From what my human Todd says, it was a trap. While I was stuck in the trap I was trying hard to get out of it and banged up my left wing. Fortunately, a nice person saw me and got me out of the trap and sent up here to Anchorage. The nice people at the Bird TLC took really good care of me and let me eat all I wanted, a salmon buffet. Boy was it yummy.

Eventually, the people at the Bird TLC said I was getting better and wanted to let me go so I could go back to Cordova. They took me to a place they call the flight pens so I could be with some of my relatives who were also getting ready to go home. I was really excited to exercise and fly again after being hurt and not feeling well for most of the summer. When I started trying to fly my left wing hurt and made me feel not so good again. They took me back to the Bird TLC a couple of times to help make me feel better ( I need to learn how to speak human so I can tell them things) but it didn't work out.

I got to live with a nice lady named Leslie for a long time and she took me all over the state seeing people and talking about me, I was like "wow I must be famous or something, all these people want to see me and find out about me". In the winter of 2006 the people at the Bird TLC told me the Lady I lived with was in a bad accident and wouldn't be back to see me any more. I was so sad.

After a while, I met some new people. I didn't know who they were or what they wanted and I did my best grumpy eagle to try to scare them away but they were pretty fiesty too and stayed around. They brought me food and talked to me, so I let them in with me. In January 2007, my new human, Todd, started coming to see me a lot. He would bring me food, talk to me and sometimes he would just stand in my mew and not say anything. At first I was like, what is this guy doing, who does he think he is? After a while I kind of got used to him coming in and visiting and kind of liked it.

Whew, my talons are getting sore from typing so much. I am going to take a rest, eat some dinner that my human brought for me. I might roust up my feathers and preen myself up a little to get ready for winter. I will continue this story later. Thanks for stopping by and maybe I will see you out in town one day.

Petra

P.S. I talked my human into putting a picture of us both on here, I am still learning this human computer stuff!!