The Skywatch Bird Rescue is looking for volunteers who can work onsite with transportation, marketing and working with their hotline. “You know, be strong and vigorous and go into the wild and take flight to kind of start their life is kind of satisfying and rewarding.” “Seeing young orphans that you’ve spent a lot of time, manpower and money raising,” Mason said.
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“But then also for a lot of these birds as you can see, they have sanctuary here and a safe place to live out their retirement.”įor Mason, seeing the birds happy and free is simply the best part. “It’s cool that we’re able to do our job in rescuing and rehabilitating the birds,” Little said. “Focusing on avian care, but releasing them into the wild, that’s my favorite part.”Įven the ones that aren’t able to be released are still given a good life. “Because that’s our ultimate goal is to rescue and rehabilitate wild animals,” said Caroline Little, a volunteer with Skywatch. Skywatch volunteer Caroline Little tends to the birds. With the help of volunteers, her vision of giving birds a second chance to soar came to life. “When you see that pelican on the beach with a broken wing or when you see the one that swallowed a fish hook, other than finding a nearby vet willing to euthanize them, there’s no care facility at all even though there’s such a huge bird interest here, and I found that very surprising.” “This is a really busy hub for migratory birds, so the fact that no one was rehabbing them on a federal level or that there was no clinical care being provided,” Mason said. She’s created a safe haven for wild, migratory and surrendered birds - something that she says is less common than it should be, especially on the coast. Now, as an adult herself, she’s a federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator. “So as a child, obviously that’s a lot of wildlife experience I gained there, experiences I had kind of tagging along with all the adults.”
“A lot of my time was spent growing up there, you know, working sometimes on summer vacations or just obviously spending time in that environment with all the rangers, trackers, veterinarians,” Mason said.
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