Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Rescued seabird pecked out man's eye

A man has been blinded in one eye after an injured gannet he was carrying across a beach on Gower, south Wales pecked his eyeball out of its socket.

Michael Buckland, 38, from Cardiff, spent three days being treated by eye specialists at Swansea's Singleton Hospital.



The seabird pierced his eyeball and cut his eyelid in two with its beak.

Mr Buckland, a welder, has been told the chances of him regaining sight in his right eye are very slim.

3 comments:

annemarie said...

Ouch :(
A similar thing happened when i rescued an injured seagull many years ago, but its beak went up my nose and tore my septum

arbroath said...

Ooh that sounds painful!

fred said...

My dad always said no good deed goes unpunished.