SCHENECTADY Merchant is birds’ best friend Pigeons wounded by hawks get personal care BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
When the hawk loses its prey, Ashok Mirpuri nurses the injured bird back to life. For years, the owner of Paisa Miser on Jay Street has cared for pigeons, doves and any other animal that runs afoul of the hawks that circle overhead. He has two pigeons in cages outside his store now, recovering from predator attacks. There are at least three hawks in the Schenectady area, according to downtowners, who watch and photograph the raptors as they sit perfectly still on lamp posts and telephone poles, watching for prey below. Usually, when they strike, their prey is killed. But sometimes, a bird falls from their talons and lands, still alive, on the pedestrian walkway of Jay Street. That’s where Mirpuri comes in. “If you see something hurt, it’s my duty to take care of it. It’s life,” he said, citing his Hindu upbringing. Over the years, he’s cared for 10 to 12 birds, he estimated. All of them recovered and flew away. But his latest patient was returned to him the same day that it healed enough to take to the skies. He spent two months caring for a brownish-black pigeon his wife named “Pretty.” It was badly scored by a hawk’s attack. “He was all ripped up,” Mirpuri said. He carefully measured out appropriate amounts of antibiotics, bandaged the bird and fed it. Finally, the pigeon grew strong enough to fly away. It soared into the sky over Jay Street just in time to be snatched up again by a hawk. This time, the pigeon fluttered wildly, the hawk lost its hold and the pigeon fell to the ground near Taj Mahal. Mirpuri is nursing it back to health again. ......................>>>>......................>>>>............................................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00102&AppName=1
...another example of man mettling with nature and then wondering why the eco-balance is upset! The hawks have a job to do too, and they don't need a liberal undoing it! Happy Thanksgiving all (even to the 7% of people who tell the Gazette in their daily poll that they "don't celebrate it.")
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...another example of man mettling with nature and then wondering why the eco-balance is upset! The hawks have a job to do too, and they don't need a liberal undoing it! Happy Thanksgiving all (even to the 7% of people who tell the Gazette in their daily poll that they "don't celebrate it.")
I agree and accept the fact that there is a balance of nature. But there are times when the prey is left half dead/half alive. I don't think it is interfering with nature if we either put it out of it's misery or help save it's life.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I guess that means you'll take the 'take it out of it's misery' option.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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