Oh no!

ok...so I was just sorting the mail from this week and found a letter from the Carolina Raptor Center informing me that our adopted barred owl, Hala, "has recently passed and is very much missed by everyone." ah! I guess hala has gone off to that big forest in the sky...

But not to worry, they send us a replacement bird to stand in until our adoption period is up in march - which i find to be a little weird and funny at the same time.

Here is some info on our "new" son...

Kajika came to CRC as an orphan after falling from his nest as a baby. He fractured his right wing, and unfortunately his injury did not heal well enough for him to be able to fly. His name comes from a Native American word meaning “walks without sound” referring to owls’ ability to fly silently. Kajika is a member of Carolina Raptor Center’s education team, and travels all across the Carolinas teaching thousands of children about the importance of owls and other raptors to the environment.