Rescuing an owl

I was cleaning up the house and suddenly mom called me there was an owl stuck by wired on the wall of the junior school, it's a rare sight nowadays since owls were even hard to spot back when I roamed the woods behind my house, the woods is gone when the church and the school got expanded.

The poor animal got wrangled by a wire from a leftover kite on its left wing and leg, it keeps pushing to get out of the helpless situation, I called my uncle and we bring a big ladder to climb to the junior school then reach the bird.

Junior kids were enjoying the scene, seeing both men help the bird, despire unable to fly after we cut all the wires, it's still pretty strong, I can feel it when I constraint its neck avoiding a bite from the bird, finnally everything was ok, we put the bird on a branch on our rooftop, letting the bird recover.

But sadly sometimes later, the junior kids keep throwing rocks on the poor bird, scaring it, it felt down on my back yard from the tree, still unable to fly because of the damaged left wing, I have to put it back on a mangos tree from my back yard, and it's been chilling there since then. I notice that it has calm down and I can get close to it taking pictures without the owl's opening mouth stance.

I hope it recovers soon and fly back to nature, owls are not fond of by people here, but I do find them fascinating, especially white owls, there was one living on a coconut tree when I was young, pure white animal.

Poor animal, got wrangled pretty hard.

Where it got stuck, in a middle of a 3rd floor wall.

My uncle holding the bird, you can see its left wing is damaged.

Still frightened after the experience, I put it on a branch, the animal keeps staring at wherever I stand, I make a careful shot then scale down the ladder and leave it be.

After I put it on the mangos tree, the bird seems calm, and isn't frightened when I approach taking pics, it's pretty close, around 6 feets from me to the bird, iPhone wide angle made it way too far away.

Majestic Owl

Thanks for sharing. Good work with the rescue, I hope it recovers.

Nice recue and good looking pictures!

Btw, I just noticed, that you're using those anchor links by Peak Design. I also have them, but I weren't able to get the through those tiny holes.

How did you do it?

zero214 wrote:

After I put it on the mangos tree, the bird seems calm, and isn't frightened when I approach taking pics, it's pretty close, around 6 feets from me to the bird, iPhone wide angle made it way too far away.

Use dental floss to force the anchor cords through the holes, then you are good to go.

Unlucky that there is no shelter here, and I don't trust local gov vets to handle this, after the fiasco of them selling wild animals recused by citizens. Good news that the owl flew away.