Tree service in the Poconos helps hawks return home [Video]

“They are federally protected, so if you are told that they are in there and you do it anyway, it is illegal. It’s a federal offense, so it was reported,” said Janine Tancredi, Pocono Wildlife co-director.

The four birds were not hurt but are still too young to care for themselves. Rehab experts knew time was limited to get the birds back to a nest near where they originally came from.

“We had a majority of the original nest, so we got one of our old laundry baskets and put the nest in there,” said Sampson Metzgar, a wildlife avian specialist at Pocono Wildlife.

But Pocono Wildlife needed a helping hand to get the birds back home, so they put out a call on Facebook. It didn’t take long for Busy Beaver Tree …