For the second time in a month Scott Coddington helped capture a goose waddling around a Denver park with an arrow protruding through its torso.
Volunteers from the Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center of Denver called Coddington of Colorado Springs last night and asked him to help catch a goose seen wandering around City Park with an arrow in its chest.
Coddington said he found the goose at 9 a.m. today near the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, located on the east side of the park. Using food to lure the goose closer, it took Coddington about 10 minutes to capture the bird.
“He seemed pretty good,” Coddington said. “He was walking and flapping.”
Volunteers from Wild Bird took the goose to get treated and have the arrow removed, Coddington said.
Officers from the Colorado Department of Wildlife started receiving reports of the injured bird on Wednesday, spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said.
Officers and city officials who were monitoring the situation, said that while the goose looked weary, the wound did not appear to be fatal.
Coddington, who caught the first injured goose in mid-March, said the second goose was easier to catch because it was less mobile and fewer rescuers made the bird less skittish.
The first impaled goose led rescuers on a chase that lasted weeks as the bird alluded volunteers in Washington Park before it was captured in Garland Park.
Coddington said he has been rescuing injured animals for almost 12 years, and he receives several calls about geese with arrow wounds.
Jordan Steffen: 303-954-1794 or jsteffen@denverpost.com
