Posted By: flintknapper
Great Horned Owl - 02/17/19 05:30 AM
Great Horned Owl I nursed back to health a few years ago.
Found him/her tangled in a barb wire fence. I'm guessing it didn't see it while try to swoop down on something. One wing had a tear to the muscles up near the body but no broken bones. The owl could not take good flight as it was.
I called to see if there were any Raptor Rehab places near me...and the closet one was 3 hrs. away (Houston) and they said they couldn't take it right then. They suggested I call my local Game Warden, so I did. Told him that I had an Owl and had no place to take it. I said that I could probably nurse it back to health but that Federal Law didn't allow me to possess an Owl. He replied "What Owl"? Getting his drift...I said "I understand" and we hung up.
Took about a month...but he eventually healed up and when I released him he flew plenty well enough several hundred yards up into a tree line. Hopefully he did well afterward. I never saw any sign of him again.
They have eyes that seem to just look right through you.
Found him/her tangled in a barb wire fence. I'm guessing it didn't see it while try to swoop down on something. One wing had a tear to the muscles up near the body but no broken bones. The owl could not take good flight as it was.
I called to see if there were any Raptor Rehab places near me...and the closet one was 3 hrs. away (Houston) and they said they couldn't take it right then. They suggested I call my local Game Warden, so I did. Told him that I had an Owl and had no place to take it. I said that I could probably nurse it back to health but that Federal Law didn't allow me to possess an Owl. He replied "What Owl"? Getting his drift...I said "I understand" and we hung up.
Took about a month...but he eventually healed up and when I released him he flew plenty well enough several hundred yards up into a tree line. Hopefully he did well afterward. I never saw any sign of him again.
They have eyes that seem to just look right through you.