A friend to the feathered Hawley woman rehabilitates birds wounded in wild

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 27, 1998| Author: Nicole Cusano, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information

HAWLEY -- The pileated woodpecker fluttered into Barbara Skelly's life one recent afternoon as a red-crowned conundrum: He had strong wings but couldn't fly.

The bird was discovered at dusk the night before, alone under a tree. A few blood droplets had stained the petticoat of white feathers beneath its wings. But he had a voracious appetite, and enough power to pinch a finger with his needle-nose beak.

"You don't know -- a lot of times they die overnight," said Skelly, a self-...

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