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Troop C Duo Rescues Injured Hawk From Interstate 84
Two Connecticut State Troopers saved an hawk in peril Saturday.
TOLLAND/VERNON, CT — A state police tandem saved an injured hawk that was stranded in Interstate 84 over the Labor Day weekend.
It was about 2:30 p.m. Saturday when Trooper Trainee Kyle Blicharz and Field Training Officer Jonathan Neihagen were patrolling the highway near Exit 67 and the Vernon-Tolland line. Blicharz had been on the job for just more than a week.
Suddenly, call came in about an injured bird the highway. The duo then located the juvenile red hawk and safely removed it from the road.
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The hawk was then relocated to Horizon Wings in Ashford for rehabilitation.
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