Officer Matt Hodnett, a 15-year veteran with the Caldwell Police Department, says he was driving on the 1500 block of Ustick Road in Caldwell when he saw a crowd of people.
He pulled over and found that the crowd was gathered near a baby hawk that had fallen out of a nest in front of a home.
Officer Hodnett tells KTVB one person was on the phone with Idaho Fish & Game at the time, hoping they'd be able to send someone to rescue the animal. But, since they were told Fish & Game's response person was nowhere near the area, the phone was handed to Officer Hodnett.
Officer Hodnett says the person on the phone told him to throw a t-shirt over the baby hawk, to avoid being scratched. He was then able to put the hawk back in the tree.
Hodnett says he was told baby hawks have fallen out of the same tree in the past, though this is the first hawk rescue he was able to help with.
(KTVB - May 30, 2015)
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