Ranger Russ Miller holds Snowball, a screech owl who was harmed in a snow ball fight and has since been named after it.
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Autumn, a red-tailed hawk, was injured by a moving vehicle and blinded in her right eye.
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Todd Secki of A Place Called Hope, a wildlife rehabilitation and education center based in Killingworth, talks about Autumn, a red-tailed hawk.
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Bird Bingo-ists James, Drew, and Owen Kocaba listen for bird calls and place their chips.
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Zack McCasland (center) is flabbergasted by bird call played and looks to his mother Joan, sister Zoe, and father John for advice on how to place his chips.
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Jake Harrison, Marzia and Caroline Johnson catch a close-up of Autumn, a red-tailed hawk.
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"Watch out for the bright lights!" Just one step toward understanding bird life, Wyatt Gibson takes a walk through the birding obstacle course.
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8: Tess Gutowski, a Department of Environmental Protection volunteer, guides bird obstacle course goers through the trials and tribulations of bird life.
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Lily Gibson successfully “watches out for the tall buildings” jumping over buckets on what would be her flight pattern as a bird.
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Samantha Webster finishes off "watching out for tall buildings" with a quaint gait.
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Some good, some not so good: Samantha Webster picks out her birding "Fate Card."
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One obstacle course goers fate proves promising, as they are told the neighborhood cat was left indoors and of no harm to birds today.
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Emilee Smith glances from behind her mom Brenda's back as Scott Heth from the Sharon-based Audubon shows off his six-year old turkey vulture, Narabo, a Native American name for “one without tail.”
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Narabo looks over his own wing as the audience raises their hands to guess how much such a large bird weighs only to find out it's no more than five to 6 pounds.
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