posted November 15, 2016 08:26 PM            

First thing I thought of was I cannot leave him there to die, and I could never receive those feathers if he died in front of me. So to make a long story short, I called the Wildlife Rescue Center, found out it was open 24 hrs, made a U-ey just up ahead on the highway and dropped him off for some TLC. Hpthey said he must have been hit not more than 5 minutes before I spotted him. So now I pray that his leg can take a splint and the bone is not shattered.

Sad part was hearing how the game commission raises these birds in captivity solely for hunters to shoot and then releases them where they just wander around clueless. They are such easy targets, walking right into paper bags with feed, you don't even need a gun. They never breed in the wild because they are not native, so what is the fate of that rescued bird? Poor thing.