12/30/2025
"Certain birds cannot take flight from dry land."
At the risk of stating the obvious… when this weather system clears please be on the look out for stranded or injured birds.
Birds like loons, grebes, mergansers can’t walk or take flight from dry land, so if they ended up having to make emergency landing on dry land due to the wind they might find themselves stranded.
Aside from them I watched an eagle try to flyover having to divert and make an emergency landing this morning due to the wind.
The eagle managed an awkward but successful landing in a tree in a sheltered spot and is okay, but other birds might not be this lucky…
