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Saw-whets are still coming through; seven hatch-year birds have been banded tonight so far, including this Saw-whet with an apparently injured eye: the left eye is dilated, but the right seems to be reacting to light properly. \u00a0This bird was heavy and had lots of fat, so it’s apparently eating well despite the eye problem.<\/p>\n

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Saw-whets are still coming through; seven hatch-year birds have been banded tonight so far, including this Saw-whet with an apparently injured eye: the left eye is dilated, but the right seems to be reacting to light properly. \u00a0This bird was heavy and had lots of fat, so it’s apparently eating well despite the eye problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90R5U-4l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":561,"url":"https:\/\/owls.taiga.com\/?p=561","url_meta":{"origin":269,"position":0},"title":"Sep 27 – Oct 8","date":"October 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Banding continues to be slow, as it has all season so far. 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