Kaz called from the Big Cats of Serenity Springs in Calhan the other day. Nick and folks from the BCSS have brought injured raptors here to rehab over the years, including a young Swainson’s hawk in late summer that was released in time for migration. Kaz informed me that during routine rounds of the big cat pens, they were quite surprised to find a small hawk in one of the tiger pens, eye to eye with what Kaz informed me was one of their more rambunctious felines-tiger Denise! The bemused feline tolerated the hawk in her pen, for how long nobody knows, before staff very carefully removed the hawk from her pen. Unfortunately the first-year Northern Harrier had suffered major head and body trauma, including massive bruising and broken air sacs; we’re guessing not from Denise the tiger but perhaps an encounter with a car or impact while hunting.