BIRDCAM.IT

obxbarb ha scritto:Thanks KF! Well, this is much better news than I expected. Here's the update from the Wildlife Center, and bless Rex for giving my favorite girl Harriet such nice publicity

On October 21, Drs. Miranda and Kelly took the peregrine to the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech for a consultation with J. Phillip Pickett, DVM, Professor of Ophthalmology in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences and Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists.

Dr. Pickett and his team found encouraging signs of healing in the bird’s right eye, with reattachment of the retina. Dr. Pickett also examined the bird’s left eye. There are two small scars there, which do not appear to compromise the bird’s sight.

Dr. Pickett would like to examine the peregrine in another four to five weeks [November 18 or later] to see how the eye has healed and to check the falcon’s sight.

Patient #10-2118 will continue to be housed in the Center’s inside patient ward, in a body wrap, for another two to three weeks. She is eating well — “like a pig”, to quote Dr. Miranda.