Birds, Goats, Rabbits

Someone found an injured bird and brought it to the clinic today.

The other doctor was looking at it and thought it was a woodpecker.  I said there was no red on its head so, no it couldn’t be a woodpecker.  Ok, maybe a female or juvenile woodpecker wouldn’t have red but still, it didn’t look like a woodpecker. 

It was a Kingfisher.  

It had a piece of fishing line tangled around its leg and wing.  Nothing was broken. The Good Samaritan took it black to release it near where it was found. 

This was the little piece of fishing line with a tangled feather.  

As for the goats, we were moving them to another field and I noticed one of the kids limping.  It had a broken rear leg. (That bend is not supposed to be there) I have no idea what happened to it.  But is was one of the kids that I supplemented with a bottle for a few weeks after it was born because it had injured a front leg.  

So it is much tamer than any other random goat kid we might have.  He will live in the dog pen and barn for a couple of weeks while he recuperates with a splint on.  

Then coming back from the barn, not one, not two, but three rabbits were in the yard.  

Anyone like rabbit meat and want to come get some?