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Bluebag Media
Knowing Joseph
& Greta a privilege
GREENVILLE – “Raptors get a bad rap because they’re birds of prey…
without them we’d be overrun with rats, mice, snakes and the other
small animals they eat.” Jeannie Harshbarger and Pam Siegel feel
privileged to have been given the opportunity to know Joseph the
Red-Tail Hawk and Greta the Great Horned Owl. They visit the “mews”
(homes of the two birds) on a daily basis.
“We come sit with them every day, sometimes talk, sometimes read to
them… sometimes we just sit.” The purpose is to get them used to
humans. Both birds arrived about the same time, in 2012, from other
county park systems. The special event at Darke County Parks’ Shawnee
Prairie on Sept. 6 was the first time their habitats had been open to
the public. Another one is scheduled for Oct. 4.
Only four people had visited a little over halfway through the
scheduled time. “That’s okay,” said Harshbarger. “We don’t want to
overwhelm them too much...
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