For owls that are superb.
US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now
International Wildlife Rescues: RescueShelter.com
Australia Rescue Help: WIRES
If you find an injured owl:
Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.
Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.
Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.
If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.
For more detailed help, see the OwlPages Rescue page.
I’ve been getting trolled most the year by a GHO- they’d set up above my window and hoot until I went outside to try and get a picture.
Eventually set up a webcam… jerk used it for a perch (and flew in and off from behind… all it saw were its talons…)
Whelp. It’s grainy. But I finally got ‘em.
(Very) Early Christmas Day. There was at least four others calling out, maybe 5-6, some were distant, so they were too bothered to hide from me.
There was at least four others calling out, maybe 5-6
I have it on good authority that there were only four calling birds.
Three French hens? Two turtle doves? A partridge in a pear tree?
There were at least 4, from separate directions. A few calls were far enough away that I think there were more (were next to a very large park, that runs half the county.)
It felt more like call-and response with an owl further out.
Say it there are five birds picard.
THERE
AAH
FOUR
BIIIHDS
Congrats on finally getting it on camera!
Is that a second owl in the tree or something else?
That's funny it mocked your camera before! 😆
A second owl loafing.
Nice! It looked like it was horned as well.
I spotted my pals Annabelle and Otis today and wished them a happy holidays.
They also had a new Red Tailed Hawk, and the porcupine was out and about and I got some pics of that too.
I hope you get some more photos of your resident owls in the future!