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The 'Owl Doctor' Returns to Tiger Mountain Newspaper Clipping, December 31, 1978
The "owl doctor returns to Tiger Mountain
By Irving Petite
hen a long, blue, well-
of Dorothy's work or have at-
came to the road that led to the
Now, driving the tortuous
when we had taken three other
traveled station wagon
tended her lectures send injured
ghost town of Taylor (which is
dead-end road which seems at
barn owls up on this same hill-
drove into my front
owls to her, keeping her occu-
now inside Seattle's Cedar River
least 10 miles but which is in fact
side for release. One of those
field one Friday afternoon in
pied to what would be the point
Watershed)
remembered
less than half that, we had half-
was a native of California.
mid-September, I knew that Dor-
of desperation in less capable
Moriarty, the great horned owl
circled the base of Taylor Moun-
Dean Rocky Barrick, a young
othy Siewers had returned to
person
we released. After taking his
tain and were in Halmar Wildlife
artist, painter of wildlife and a
Tiger Mountain
Her normal patient load is 20
time leaving the carrying box, he
Sanctuary. This makes it sanctu-
friend of Dorothy's, had been
The immediate question: What
to 25 owis, although during
ascended slowly
in
air
ary in a completed circle, for
driving north in California when
sort of owls had she brought to
hunting season and the spring
watershed is all around.
he came upon a barn owl, dead
release? And where?
"baby" bird period this figure
The two other owls Dorothy
in the highway.
For nearly 20 years Dorothy
sometimes balloons to 50 or
had brought this day were Han-
Dedicated artist that he is, he
has been Florence Nightingale
more, including many nestling
THIS THE
sel and Gretel, two of a group of
stopped to retrieve the bird to
to injured or orphaned owls all
who must be fed every few
RIGHT PLACE
three nestlings that she had
use as a model - and was
about the Puget Sound Country
hours.
reared and trained to hunt.
amazed and delighted when the
sometimes from east of the
In the Magazine I wrote once
'They were brought in by log-
dead bird moved slightly. He
mountains
and
more
than
of pileated wookpeckers, men-
gers from up near Carnation,
stopped at several communities
once from Oregon and Califor-
tioning that Dorothy had brought
she said. "The men had felled a
in Northern California searching
nia.
screech owls and saw-whet owls
tree with a barn-owl nest in it
for an individual or organization
And for many years (we be-
to release on my Tiger Mountain
five babies, two of whom were
to take charge of the badly in-
came friends when attending a
ranch when the fields here and
dead from falling. They brought
jured owl Finding no one, he
University of Washington writing
the hills beyond resembled
the surviving three to me in a
decided to bring it home to
class taught by William L. Wor-
those from which they had
huge box filled with fir boughs; I
Dorothy.
den), have been following Dor-
come.
YOU
had to excavate to find the baby
'He phoned about midnight
othy's work with owis.
Letters I received in response
CALLED
owls among the greenery.
from Roseburg, Oregon," Doro-
It began on Queen Anne Hill,
included two I sent to Dorothy.
IT
'The loggers were huge, too,
thy said, "to let me know about
in the Richard J. Siewers Ward
She wrote:
and practically in tears because
the owl. He knows that I'm up all
Street home (a few blocks from
got in touch with both of the
people up there had told them
night working with the birds, and
where my father, J. Edward Pe-
people. The biology student
the babies couldn't possibly be
wanted to warn me that he
tite, now lives at Bayview Manor
from Pullman thought that taking
saved. One of the men tele-
would be bringing me a new pa-
on the site of the old Kinnear
care of owls should be a very
phoned me the following week
tient in the wee small hours."
estate).
lucrative undertaking (You're
and was obviously relieved to
The owl, which Dean had
A childhood fascination with
KIDDING! she exclaimed, when
learn that the owls were thriv-
named Modoc after the town
owls grew into a lifetime dedica-
informed her that not only do
ing.
near which it was found, was a
tion to these birds of the shad-
get paid nothing whatsoever, but
Since they were blond-feath-
mass of bruises and was tempo-
ows, and Dorothy became an in-
it costs my husband and me a
ered, Dorothy thought they
rarily blind. But with Dorothy's
ternationally known strigiformol-
great deal of money to continue
looked Teutonic and named
good care and understanding, it
logist (owl expert).
this volunteer work.)'
them Manfred, Hansel and Gre-
was ultimately mended and
When the Seattle Audubon
This past September Dorothy
tel. (Hansel and Gretel I identi-
ready for release.
Society sponsored a hospital for
had three barn owls in separate
bounds and great, fluttering
fied with since so named had
I remember the leave-taking to
injured wild birds in the mid-
carrying hampers on the station
arcs the road toward the old,
been my Chester-white pigs, de-
renewed freedom of that owl
1960s, ornithologists Zella
wagon's rear platform.
town
scribed in the Magazine Febru-
which might well have been
Schultz and Eleanor Stopps en-
'I'm on my way up to the wild-
several years ago
ary 12.)
named Icarus for he flew as if
listed their fellow Audubon mem-
life sanctuary to release these
cool, mountain-veil-
Manfred had been the small-
bers' help in caring for the owis
into the sun, golden feathers
three," she said, "and I thought
little way back
est and was at this time not quite
gleaming. He flew to a limb more
who became patients in the hos-
maybe you could go along.'
road had it been a clear
ready for release; a "red-faced
pital; later Dorothy helped to or-
than halfway up a 150-foot white
As we drove south toward
day we would have had a full
clown," according to Dorothy,
fir. He rested a bit, then rose
ganize and incorporate the
Hobart, she told me of the three.
Seattle Wild Bird Clinic, which in
view of Mount Rainier logging
he was taking his time about
higher than tree's crest, as if to
One had been found, inexplic-
1970 replaced the Audubon
inside the watershed's boundary
learning to earn his living.
hobnob with the sun.
ably injured, on a Bainbridge Is-
had made a window on the view
Clinic.
When we came to the home of
Smaller birds
chickadees
land beach by a teen-age boy
And Moriarty was fine be-
A special license from the Un-
our mutual friend, Ellen Beaty,
and two friends; the finder's
and bushtits in the fall firs, jun-
cause watershed fences and
near road's end, we toted the
cos in bushes about Ellen's
ited States Fish and Wildlife Ser-
mother brought the bird across
"no hunting' stipulations made
vice is required to take care of
carrying boxes halfway up the
pond set up a concerted
on the ferry and Dorothy met
protected
birds
for him a vast sanctuary.
forested mountainside where
and,
indeed,
them on the Seattle side.
'warning chorus' as from a
all of our native birds are feder-
Seeing that place reminded
once had been the railroad sta-
In the box with the owl there
Wagnerian opera.
ally protected except for game
me to tell Dorothy of my own
tion for the ghost town of Kerris-
On this different, later day, no
was a packet of three stamped
recent great-horned-owl visita-
ton.
birds in designated hunting sea-
small birds sang. The only
envelopes addressed to the boy
sons.
tion, the first in many years.
who had rescued the bird, with
On a log lying sideways along
sound was the whispering of the
The convalescing owls were
Monday night of the same week
notepaper included so that she
the steep hill, Dorothy posi-
forest and the chirring of a far-
accommodated in a spacious
my chickens, which roost in
tioned the first box and slid up
could let him know of the foun-
off Douglas squirrel.
room known as "The Owl De-
dling's progress.
Douglas firs encircling my
the door.
The departure of Hansel and
partment' in the Queen Anne
house, had daggered "raccoon-
Promptly there emerged the
Gretel was less spectacular than
'I'll send the last note to let
house.
about-to-get-me' squawks
him know about the release,
heart-shaped, white-feathered,
that of Rimo.
After legs, wings, or other in-
she said.
and I'd run out to aim my flash-
seemingly naked face of Rimo,
One at a time, they emerged
jured parts were healed, the
light at a shape which was, ac-
who had been born on Bain-
The three boys had named the
from the carrying boxes and de-
owls learned to fly again in the
tually, a great horned owl
owl Rim, taking the first letters of
bridge Island.
parted in opposite directions
high-ceilinged kitchen.
perched beside a chicken.
their own names to create a
Although the day had been
Hansel floating across the valley
Now Dorothy and husband
And I recalled the time, in Oc-
name for the bird, but Dorothy
fraught with bursts of damp wind
toward the creek and Gretel glid-
Dick live in South King County
tober of 1976, Dorothy had writ-
had added a syllable and called
and minor leaf cyclones in the
ing noiselessly toward the thick-
where a well-arranged barn of-
the owl Rimo.
ten to say that she was going to
road, it was quiet here among
er forest.
fers more suitable quarters,
Vantage with a great horned owl
like names of at least two
towering trees. The owl left the
"They are in excellent shape
The Audubon Society, the
which had been found injured in
syllables," she said, "and the
log, swooped downhill between
and they both got A in hunting,
Woodland Park Zoo, the Hu-
Ginkgo State Park and was now
straight, limbless trunks
lifted
birds respond better
Dorothy said. There are shrews
mane Society, the State Game
ready to return home
Dorothy's had many hundreds
and flew more than halfway up a
and mice in goodly quantities
Department and other organiza-
planned to take two others on
of patients, every one of which
white fir and landed.
here, and varied kinds of prey in
tions and individuals who know
the
same
trip
and wondered
had a name. For instance, as we
His flight recalled to me the
the miles of Cascade mountains
if I wanted to go along.
time, more than a year ago,
beyond.
December 31, 1978, THE SEATTLE TIMES MAGAZINE 7
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Seattle Alumnae Chapter Scrapbook, 1978-1988
This scrapbook documents the activities of the Seattle Alumnae Chapter and its members from 1978 to 1988. It consists mainly of newspaper clippings and some ephemera.
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This scrapbook documents the activities of the Seattle Alumnae Chapter and its members from 1978 to 1988. It consists mainly of newspaper clippings and some ephemera.
