During my activation today, I came across this sad scene. A young female goat tried to jump the fence, but with bad luck, her hoof got caught in the wire. She may have died yesterday and after a lot of struggle. The vultures were already doing their job.
73 de Dani EA5M
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Bad luck for the Goat. I have found a few Kangaroos like that and some I have found in time to unhook them and let then go. I remember one angry Roo jumped on me once I set him free, another I had to hit on the head because he was really badly injured and his leg was broken. Duriing the drought of 2019 on a SOTA trip I unhooked a skinny old female Roo and gave her a drink of water she was a bit worried at first but once she realised it was a bottle of water she gulped it down straight away. I came across a very large Wedge Tail Eagle dead in the fork of a small bushy tree, There was a dead goat under the tree and maybe he crash landed in the tree when he called in for a feed on the carcass. Pity to find him then he had not been dead very long and I could have saved him too. Had a baby Goat come and sit by me in the warm sunshine while I did my activation on a summit, gave him a drink too and had to sneak off and leave him as he wanted to come home with me. I knew his mother was probably not far away as the mob of goats run off when I reached the summit. Given lots of Sleepy Lizards a drink out on SOTA they are way out in middle of no where a long way from water.
Oh to be one with nature on SOTA is amazing.
Regards
Ian vk5cz …
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An awful way to die.
too have seen film of kangaroos in Australia hung up like that and as Ian describes… . It appears their back-legs slip between the top and 2nd wires and as they go down that causes the wires to twist& trap them.
Years ago I saw a Tawny Owl with its wing caught on the top barbed wire fence. It obviously wasn’t enough to kill it, but just one barb had caught its wing. Another slow and sad death.
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