PORT TOWNSEND — The Discovery Bay Raptor Rehabilitation and Education Center will host an open house from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The bird rehabilitation center at 1014 Parkridge Drive is run by Cynthia Daily and her husband, Conner, former Port Townsend police chief.
It is a compound of neatly designed enclosures sits on 5½ acres. It has 30 outdoor enclosures for birds.
“We have one of the only 100-foot-long eagle flight cages to serve the entire state of Washington,” Cynthia Daily said.
Currently two immature bald eagles are being rehabilitated in the enclosure.
Daily also is caring for a woodpecker and two Northern Pygmy Owls that were injured when they were struck by vehicles.
In her specially-designed seabird enclosures are a common murre, cormorant, loon, bufflehead duck and three rhinoceros auklets.
The star attraction of the center is Kenadie, a mature golden eagle who Daily said was hit by a car near Brinnon. Among the bird’s injuries was a detached retina which keeps it from seeing out of his right eye. The eagle cannot be released into the wild and is now an education bird for the center.
All the education birds, including Kenadie, will be on display at Saturday’s open house, which will include a tour of some of the rehabilitation areas.
For more information, call 360-379-0802 or see www.discoverybaywildbird rescue.com.
