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"That was my preliminary assessment," confirms [Sumner Matteson]. "It sure looked to me like that's what it was." Nancy Businga, a DNR wildlife health lab manager who also saw the hawk, doubts it traveled far after being burned: "I would think it would go into shock and have blood loss fairly quickly"
To [Laurie Fike], the message is clear: "This can be prevented. People who need methane flames can take steps to prevent birds from being killed like this." But you can't make a fix until you find a culprit, and Fike's quest to do so has been met with a chorus of "It Ain't Me Babe."The citizens of Madison, and throughout the rest of the planet, owe a huge debt of gratitude to Connie Phair, Mayor [Dave Cieslewicz]'s executive assistant Phair, prodded by a certain local weekly newspaper columnist (see "Madison Seeks Mo-Better [Music]," 8/22/08 and "Send in Your Songs," 10/3/08), has succeeded at long last in replacing the godawful hold music on the city's phone system with an array of delightful ditties by local musicians.See the full content of this document
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Searching for a Killer
Elsa Banks was horrified. In January she was walking her dogs near her south-side Madison home when she spied something in a snow bank. She got closer and saw it was "a big, beautiful bird" - dead, with both legs and part of its lower body burned off.
"It was just heartbreaking," says Banks, a teacher at McFarland High School "Obviously he suffered. Can you imagine wh...See the full content of this document
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