![]() ![]() On Saturday, June 17, the Yale African American Affinity Group (YAAA) and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, which is part of MacMillan Center at Yale, will co-sponsor an event, “ Juneteenth New Haven,” which will be held at the Connecticut Violence Intervention Center at 230 Ashmun St. More information about how to help wounded animals, and when not to help them, can be found at the NEWC website,, on the center’s Facebook page, or by calling 78.The Yale campus will be closed on Monday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth, which many Black Americans consider “a second Independence Day,” but a series of local events will offer opportunities to celebrate and reflect on the meaning of the day. Gary Mertz, staff veterinarian told The Times there are two breaks in the left wing which can possibly be fixed with a cast or a surgically placed pin, but the bird’s flight potential remains up in the air at this time. There’s a lot more wildlife out there than people realize.”Īs of Wednesday morning, the owl was recovering at the New England Wildlife Center (NEWC). It’s too bad there’s not a place on Island that can do this. ![]() No more negative feedback, and hopefully everyone is happy to know the owl has been given to the people who could help him best. “Now he’ll be receiving the help he needs. Sweeney acknowledged there was some sharp criticism from some people who thought that he was domesticating wild animals. The whole thing was a community effort: It was really cool how it came together.” Michelle was already going off Island on the first boat the next day, so she said she’d drop him off. Michelle Katz gave me a couple more leads, which led to the New England Wildlife Center, and they agreed to take him. “Pretty soon, a lot of people were making calls. “I posted an update first thing and started making some calls,” he said. Sweeney set about finding a veterinarian. “That wasn’t my intention, but, oh well.” “The woman that has the beauty parlor next door told me that when she went to her car the other night there were five skunks out there,” he said laughing. “I could pick them up and feed them, they were really cool,” he said. This summer he adopted five orphaned baby skunks that lived under his neighbor’s house. Sweeney has cared for a menagerie of wounded and orphaned animals. When he took the bird to Felix Neck, it turned out the bird was not injured, but drunk from eating fermented grapes. Sweeney made his first animal rescue in high school, when he came to the aid of an addled Bohemian waxwing. “I’d take off into the woods and come back six hours later and they’d never worry.” “They live in Chilmark and growing up I spent a lot of time there,” he said. Sweeney attributed his love of nature to his grandparents. Sweeney said, recalling his first owl rescue in 2005. I don’t know if that’s why they’re so docile, but the other one was the same way,” Mr. “They don’t have many predators around here. “They’re wicked smart animals,” he said, gently stroking the owl’s head with the back of his index finger. Sweeney extended his hand and the owl climbed on without hesitation. I fed him some chicken but the mouse was too big.” “He’s been taking water from an eyedropper, which is a good sign. ![]() He made a knocking sound, clicking his tongue off the roof of his mouth, and the owl responded in a strikingly similar sound and cadence. Sweeney demonstrated an easy rapport with the wounded bird. “I like watching my animals, and I have a lot of plants, I’m just a weirdo I guess,” Mr. The picture window afforded views of some of the many bird feeders and birdhouses that encircle the house. Elsewhere in the living room, a pineapple bush, a hibiscus, a Christmas cactus, various bonsai trees, a weeping cypress, a ficus plant and an anthurium plant, soaked in the afternoon sun. Sweeney’s golden retriever puppy, lay next to the aquarium. The perch afforded the owl a good view of a 55 gallon saltwater fish tank, where clownfish, lemon peel, tomato clowns, a hawkfish, and a shy lobster reside. Sweeney built for it in his living room, improvised out of a beach plum branch. Sweeney recounted the previous 48 hours for The Times, the statue-still raptor, barely bigger than a coffee can, impassively watched from a perch Mr. He was probably going for some dinner and got hit.”Īs Mr. Screech owls eat rats and mice but they eat a lot of insects because of their size - they only get to be nine inches at the most. “The winter moths were out big time that night. Sweeney hypothesized that the winter moth bloom that night played a role in the owl’s losing battle with a car.
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