Greetings,

For those of you interested in the continuing saga of the birds shot with
crossbow arrows last week at Green Lake (Seattle), here's the latest:

This (Tuesday) morning Ernie and Penny Roses, Roarke (whose last name I
didn't catch), and I met at the lake. Roarke works with one of the crow
studies out of the University of Washington. He arrived with a "cannon net"
(I gather a contraption that shoots a net over the targeted bird). We
circled the lake in search of the Canada Goose with the arrow lodged in its
breast, but did not find it.

Later in the day Ernie called me and told me that Monday afternoon someone
from Sarvi Wildlife Center managed to trap the Canada Goose. It died later
from its injuries. Massive infection from the arrow as well as a punctured
lung.

In an earlier report I said the domesticated (Chinese) goose was
recuperating at Sarvi. This is not correct, it is recuperating at HOWL (the
wildlife section of PAWS) in Lynnwood. The American Coot we caught on Sunday
was also taken to HOWL. It too had a punctured lung, but as of today it
appear to be doing well.

Still seething mad at these senseless and cruel acts of destruction of
life....

Martin Muller, Seattle
MartinMuller at email.msn.com