Peninsula flight pen proves a success

On June 10, Jaye Moore, Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center director, and Cynthia Daily, Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue director, celebrated the collaborative and successful effort to relocate a large enclosure from Yakima to the Olympic Peninsula.

June 15, 2016 2:58 pm
In celebration of the structure’s completion more than 40 students from Grant Street Elementary that helped to fundraise for the relocation of the 100-foot flight pen visited the Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue on June 10.
In celebration of the structure’s completion more than 40 students from Grant Street Elementary that helped to fundraise for the relocation of the 100-foot flight pen visited the Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue on June 10.

Sequim Gazette staff

On June 10, Jaye Moore, Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center director, and Cynthia Daily, Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue director, celebrated the collaborative and successful effort to relocate a large enclosure from Yakima to the Olympic Peninsula.

The flight pen measuring 100 feet long, 16 feet tall and 36 feet across will be used to locally rehabilitate eagles and other large species like peregrine falcons, pelicans, osprey, hawks and great-horned owls.

Building on years of work together, the two organizations partnered to raise the $15,000-plus needed for the project.

Community support and contributions from across the peninsula brought the flight pen into reality — from a live music and art event in Port Angeles and an online gofundme campaign to a school bake sale.

Daily also noted that TPF Services in Yakima donated many man hours to takedown and reassemble the enclosure, Bottom Line Transportation delivered it at cost and Stewart Excavation donated all the work clearing and excavating the land.

 

(Below) From left, Jaye Moore, Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center director, and Cynthia Daily, Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue director, hug as the 100-foot flight pen is dedicated to Moore because of her ongoing commitment and work.