Kestrel and Red Tailed Cages

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Our Director of Education, Bart Kotarba, and volunteers worked quite hard on these cages.  Bart wanted to add a touch of home for any resident Kestrels so he painted a forest edge scene with an actual telephone pole.  (Due to health problems we lost both our male Kestrels.  At this time we have a female Merlin, Mya residing in the Kestrel cage.)

Winter set in before we could finish the Red-tailed hawk side.  Sierra was moved into her new cage the Fall of 2004.  Like the Kestrels' enclosure it was made to look like an area where you could expect to find Red-tailed hawks, a farm barnyard or field.

  Doesn't look like much in the beginning.

   Sierra enjoying her favorite viewing spot.