Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse

But whenever possible, birds are released back into the wild. The bird will eventually go to the zoo, since its wing is permanently damaged. A pelican they named 'Arrow' had been deliberately shot with an arrow, and the shaft had passed through its body. 'We don't turn away anything that needs help.' says Evans. Their garage became a clinic, their backyard a pelican habitat aviary. a volunteer group that rescues wild birds (mostly brown pelicans) from Los Angeles to San Diego County.

In 1986 she and her veterinarian/biologist husband, Richard, set up the Pacific Wildlife Project. Next is a graceful long-necked grebe, followed by a young pelican, a bird so big Evans' arm seems to vanish down its throat before the feeding tube slips into place.įor more than 25 years, McLeod-Evans 57, has been caring for such feathered waifs, found sick, starving, or injured. To administer some protein-rich food to a sick petrel, she grasps the reluctant bird gently but firmly and threads a long plastic tube down into its stomach. But mostly there are brown pelicans, perched on wooden stumps and posts, watching the action.Įvans feeds her 'patients' in the late afternoon. Sick or injured wild birds are everywhere: a goose here, a cormorant there, mourning doves snoozing in incubators, a couple of excited baby night herons, hopping and screeching. Linda McLeod-Evans' home in Laguna Niguel, CA, looks much like any other on her street until you pass through the gate to her backyard.

Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse