"Feather extensions," Victoria Hall called them. When Clarke was satisfied that each feather was the same length and alignment as the old one, he glued the new feathers into the old shafts. After carefully measuring to make sure the new feather was the same length, he used a small piece of bamboo to join the donor feather to the owl's old feather shaft. Jamie Clarke performed the imping procedure on the anesthetized owl, first clipping off each old feather near the owl's body. The surgical tools aren't at all esoteric, merely bamboo skewers, nail trimmer, ruler and quick-fixing epoxy glue. So, in this case, new feathers needed to have been harvested from a deceased great horned owl's tail and replaced in the exact same order. Each replacement feather must be from the same species and same location on the bird's body. Two veterinary technicians at the Raptor Center are skilled at this procedure, as much an art as it is science.īasically, damaged feathers are pulled out and replaced with feathers from another, (almost invariably) deceased bird. Luckily, there's an age-old remedy for such situations - it comes from the practice of falconry and is called imping. The owl couldn't be released back to the wild with those damaged feathers, but in the normal course of things, he wouldn't molt new tail feathers until next summer or fall, a long time to keep a wild bird in a cage. These flight feathers are critical to his ability to brake and steer while hunting and landing. Several weeks of cage rest and treatment healed his soft tissue and eye injuries, but the owl had another problem: His tail feathers were in bad shape, some broken in his entanglement, some while he was recovering. A good Samaritan discovered the exhausted raptor the next morning, and got him to the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota.
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The netting ensnared the owl, who thrashed around wildly, trying to free himself. The owl's journey started one dark night in mid-August as he swooped low over a school field, unaware of the soccer net ahead. He'd been away for two months and was making it known that this was still his territory, after some strange and, to him, incomprehensible events. Patreon offers the same game access as our store, but with the added benefits of art.In late autumn a male great horned owl sent his soft, deep hoots out from a stand of trees in Minnetonka. If you don't want to pay for game content twice and want more HTH Studios art, go with Patreon. Occasional Art/Character Suggestions (Suggestion Tiers) Game LInks: Monthly/3 Months/6 Months/Annually What's the difference between buying through the store or Patreon? If you didn't get your game link, then send me a message and I'll get it fixed for you.
I send out game links once a day through Patreon's message system. NO! This is an alternative option to our store. Our store can't accept Paypal.ĭo I need to buy on the Store AND Patreon to get game access? Then Welcome! The ONLY way to use Paypal is through Patreon. With Flash losing browser support, the focus has switched to transferring HTH and other games into Unity.īecoming a Patron gives you a chance to see what work is in progress, new art, sketches, videos in addition to game links if you're in the $7 tier or higher. In 2012, the beta of HTH launched on with two islands to explore and built up the environment to host over 50 interactive characters. Set of islands that revisits the first two-game environments whileĪdding many more along with a variety of sexy encounters to enjoy. with its bright, glass-domed club, and finally to its current version on a lavish HTH 1.0 in a tiny hall with extremely loud crickets, to HTH 2. High Tail Hall (HTH) launched to over a decade ago in what began as a Myst style exploration game with sexy furry characters.
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