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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1956)
PAGE TWELVE HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1956 f 4i frfcf rV.vr - - .... " - , ' ' - ' , S A-T) fr' '-'Jfc wfc 'V Cjk -tYT1 1 r - taw ' in - w . t i .1 - - fV. O'Donahue has fenced in at home near Klamath Falls. The easy-going man with the grey bristly hair has been working at his self-appointed game con servation chores (or more than 20 years now, and through his ef forts is responsible for the salva tion of what is estimated to be more than 100 birds a year. That number represents only the crip ples which O'Donahue and h i s retriever bring in, to say nothing of the birds which make it through the exceptionally tough winters by virtue of the feeding program he maintains. INJURIES DETERMINED After bringing the crippled birds in from the fields or water, O'Donahue takes them to his home where the full exteni. of in- GETTING A WING TRIM JOB IN THE UPPER left photo is one of the convalescing speckled breasted geese at Jim O'Donahue's bird convalescent home. The wing is clipped so the bird cannot leave the fenced-in pasture until he is sufficiently strong to fly over the four-foot fence. O'Don ahue explains that some of the birds would otherwise leave before being strong enough, and would either die or be come victims of predator animals. In the center top photo the big bird is being released into the half acre fenced-in portion where he will remain until next summer. The bird will not be able to clear the fence until he moults again at which time he will be fully able to take care of him- self and continue with normal bird flights. Looking on as O'Donahue puts the bird 1 in the pen is King, his 8-year-old Labrador retriever who annually assists Jim when working the icy waters to retrieve the crippled or sick birds. In the upper right picture O'Donahue looks over one of his most prized possessions. It is an original bird life painting by John J. Audubon, and was given to him by the late E. R. Driver, well known naturalist and conser vationist who lived in the Medford area' for more than 30 years. The painting is of three mottled owls, and was painted in 1830. The great detail found in the paintings portrays the genius type ability of the artist. In addition to the owl painting, Driver also gave O'Donahue another Audubon oriqinal painted in 1837. In the lower left photo Mrs. O'Donahue assures Corporal, the couple's pet skunk, that the cameraman moans no harm and just wants him to smile , , . and there isn't a thing to worry about, Corporal's fusehead has been removed. Concerning the quality of skunks as pots, Mrs. O'Donahue isn't quite sure at this time concerning the pet qualities of such as Corporal, 'He's a real nice little animal, but when he wants to he can get into more mischief than any six animals or people." In addition to other chores about the house, Corporal spends some of his time scratching the back of the O'Don ahue's big retriever. The dog doesn't mind in the least until Corporal elects to bite instead of scratch. I Ph0' by Kettlerl SINCKK DIVOItCKI) I.OS ANCEI.KS MWSinittT Peg- BANDLEADER DIES HOLLYWOOD, Fla. W Isham 63, one of the nation's top bandleaders in the 11120s and IMOs 1!V hiiiR has divorced trumpet! jun, player Knobby Lee. testifying he, drove a c.ir so List it nuutc hir! nervous. "1 finally h:id to go to 1,ni' composer of some 20O songs " i , 'I' , ""J". 1 W'V!"::'!'!!: including oldlime hits "It had to oul and I couliln I sliind il, she told Superior .Inline A. A. Scott ine '011 "' " sec ou 'n nl' yesterday. 'dreams." died Friday. O'Donahue And King All Ready For Rescue Work way and, as usual, bird s best friend is operating in the Klamath Basin. That is, Jim O'Donahue and his retrieving dog King will be going out to bring in the crip his lated desert east of Banning, Cali fornia. "It con get terrible lonely on the desert," he recalls, "and 1 soon realized that the occasional birds, By JOHN GUERNSEY Should be left to die and waste or in a two room cabin in the iso- The duck season is again under-! become predator bait." HEALTH FAILED How, you wonder, does a man become interested in such work and learn to pursue it with a full! insects, and reptiles were great pled and sick birds so they canlmeasure of satisfaction. O'DonaVcompanions for breaking the onon convalcsce in the half-acre field , hue explains it this way. lotony." "A good many years ago my' He worked with rattlesnakes ,,,,. . . . . . ? . and to this day maintains that health broke down and I had t they are one of the most misrepre- icm a um cwiiaie lor re- sentcd creatures or reptiles on covery. For two years he lived alone Lower Price Index Shown earth. After he satisfactorily recov ered, he lived essentially alone in the mountainous Butte Falls re gion while developing some prop erty. During his stay there, O'Dona hue was afforded the opportunity of being with and studying varied forms of both bird and wildlife. He later moved to Medford andl That consumers are receivine came to Klamath Falls about 19 the benefit of lower food price j years ago. levels was indicated last week bv " "That's all there was to it." he the Consumer Price Index issued; chuckles, "I was fortunate in hav ing a wonderful opportunity to study nature, learned to appre ciate the value of conservation, and now have a thoroughly sat- who erroneously thought they were lost, winter starved coyotes, crippled deer, beaver, and other animals. On hand now he has an assort ment of crippled honkers, specks, cacklers, ducks, snow geese and one Ross goose. Also in the big yard are several peacocks, pea hens, and two Australian Barnacle geese which were given to him. Although, he is highly interested in receiving and caring for wild birds and animals, O'Donahue does not encourage people to bring such as crippled cats and dogs or those which have been abandoned. He points out that there are agen cies designed to care for such un fortunate domestic animals, with his intent being to care for in jured or sick wildlife from a con servation standpoint. Although O Donahue employes ) effort to make pets out of any of the birds at his sanc tuary, he explains that some bird by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Attention to these lower prices was pointed out by George M. MnnOan Hivicinn mnngooi. nC tl,n juries are determined. If the birds, Safeway Stores throughout Ore gon. types are especially adaptable to becoming pets. "Both the Canadian geese and the pelicans are inclined toward becoming pets," he says, "why in the case of one old pelican it was so bad I couldn't even take a pic ture of it . . . each time I walked in the pen the old boy would move up and try to swallow the cam era. "Then there was the case of a pelican that learned to catch. All you had to do was throw the food and he'd snatch it in mid air . . . that boy could have held down a berth with the Dodgers just about any day." In the field of intelligence, it is O'Donahue's thought that t h e magpies, honking geese, and pel icans are the boys with the 564,000 question IQ's. Although operating his game conservation program on a strict-! ly hobby-like basis, O Donahue works in close relation with mem-l bers of the fish and wildlife, and game commission. He points out that the named services maintain excellent conservation programs in the Basin area. In addition to other cooperative ' arrangements, the government agencies have made it possible for O'Donahue to become one of those rare exceptions ... for his type of hunting there's no daily or bag limit. 1 How do O'Donahue and h i I wife Helen feed all the birds they keep at their home and where do they get the grain for the large number of wild birds fed dur ing some winters. There's quite a bit of the feed money comes from his own pocket and there are sev eral persons and agencies lending a helping hand to the Basin's re markable conservationist. You can help him too. When the birds are out of effective rang this year don't warm up your gun barrel with a few chance shots. isfying time working with the homeless and injured wild birds and animals. In the early years of his ven ture business was a little slow. O'Donahue brought in what crip pled birds he could find and them back to flying Mr. Mangan stated that the BLS Index as released lest week, dis closes all food prices had declined 1.5 per cent by mid-August from their seasonal Deak in .lulv. Fnntk consumed jn homes dropped 1.8 'nursed per cent at retail stores. I strength. Furthermore this latest BLS "I really got into the thick of it Index if 4.1 per cent lower thanl?bout 10 years ag Jf'" we were, ihp aii.iimn nook in fai-ii fj'losing so many birds because of prices reached in August, l52 four years ago. During those four year, incomes have continued rise, with weekly earnings in manufacturing plants, for exam ple, up about 19 per cent. This means the average factory work er's paycheck now will buy about 24 per cent more food than in Aug ust, 1952, Mr. Mangan said. "Anyone In our business knows." he explained, "that the food in- are in such a condition that they can be put in the big half-acre pen they are placed in it after having one wing cupped. If they require more treatment than can be administered in the open lot, the birds are placed in one of the smaller enclosed pens O'Donahue has in his back yard, When they are sufficiently strong the b i r d s s arc taken from the smaller pens, undergo the clip ping of one wing, and are placed in the big lot. The conservationist explains that he clips one wing so the birds cannot leave the lot until they have completely regained their strength or been branded as permanent cripples. The half-acre is enclosed with a four-foot high wire fence and the birds remain their throughout the winter and spring months until they have re- moulted and repaired the deficient wing. CRIPPLES REMAIN The healed birds generally fly away during the late spring and summer, with the permanent cripples remaining. What docs Jim do with the permanent cripples? Well, thatjwhen normal seasonal fluctuations; falcons, and other types. He has BIG NEWS FROM botulism." he recalls. "I must have worked with more than five or six hundred sick ones during each of the bad years. BUSINESS BOOMS After that the word of O'Dona hue's work spread throughout the state and he has been strictly up to his neck in the bird and ani mal business since that time. Con servation minded persons and cm. ploes with the fish and wildlife, game commission, and state po- dustry's modern methods and its' ij'ce departments 'now bring him .,-i.v.c ieiaiii-isianjmais and birds from all over tuiiMunuy press againsi rising looa the county in ices - unu neip to translate our increased wages and higher con sumer incomes into higher stan dards of eating." Reports of "higher" food prices His activity is hardly confined to the care and treatment of crippled ducks and geese. He has in the past taken in a wide as sortment of bird Wdcs. including often distort the real situation 'the California house fink, eagles, too has quite satisfactorily been taken care of. A few years back he and Jack Marks of the Wash ington Park Zoo in Portland concluded a highly beneficial working agreement. Marks now conies to Klamath Falls periodi cally and removes a truck load of the cripples to the zoo. "That works out particularly well." adds O'Donahue, "the en closure at the zoo is such that any of the cripples can leave if they recover to the extent that they can fly nwnv. Although he hasn't hunted birds with a shotgun in recent years. O'Donahue mokes a par ticular point of stressing that he in no way objects to hunting. 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