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Title: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Eupher on March 07, 2017, 07:19:54 PM
We have a visitor. Just dropped in. Looked a little hungry, so I fed him some raw hamburger. Ate about 4 tablespoons full. We'll keep him overnight in the garage and then Mrs. E and a neighbor will take him to the Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation Center tomorrow.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/Eupher6/2017.03.07%20baby%20owl_zpsnydwn8lt.jpg)
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Rick on March 07, 2017, 07:51:08 PM
Is he hurt, or just cold. Maybe they could get him some glasses.
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: freedumb2003b on March 07, 2017, 08:14:24 PM
Is he hurt, or just cold. Maybe they could get him some glasses.

And a mortarboard hat.
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Eupher on March 07, 2017, 08:18:49 PM
Is he hurt, or just cold. Maybe they could get him some glasses.

Seems perfectly healthy. Calm, no outward fear. I picked him up with my hands and he was a little wobbly, but he did okay and didn't bite.
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Rick on March 08, 2017, 12:02:46 AM
Good

Looks healthy, no bald spots, has he tried to fly?
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: RobJohnson on March 08, 2017, 03:47:44 AM
Great picture
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Texacon on March 08, 2017, 04:33:08 AM
That's cool.

KC
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Eupher on March 08, 2017, 06:47:43 AM
Good

Looks healthy, no bald spots, has he tried to fly?

The bird is mostly down -- still too young to fly; hasn't fledged yet. The Rehab Center will take him in and hopefully teach him how to hunt, then release him back to the wild.
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: dixierose on March 08, 2017, 06:59:53 AM
The bird is mostly down -- still too young to fly; hasn't fledged yet. The Rehab Center will take him in and hopefully teach him how to hunt, then release him back to the wild.

How adorable!

I found an owl beside the road several years ago. It had been hit by a car and one of its wings looked broken. I got some heavy duty garden gloves, put the owl in my car, and took it to Oatland Island Wildlife Center in Savannah. They rehab wild animals there, too. I never found out if the owl was able to be released back into the wild; but I know they took good care of him.
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Wayne on March 11, 2017, 07:06:28 AM
Is he hurt, or just cold. Maybe they could get him some glasses.

 :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: Dblhaul on March 14, 2017, 09:27:45 PM
give him a tootsiepop!
Title: Re: A Visitor Popped in a while ago....
Post by: FunkyZero on March 14, 2017, 09:39:18 PM
We have a visitor. Just dropped in. Looked a little hungry, so I fed him some raw hamburger. Ate about 4 tablespoons full. We'll keep him overnight in the garage and then Mrs. E and a neighbor will take him to the Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation Center tomorrow.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i317/Eupher6/2017.03.07%20baby%20owl_zpsnydwn8lt.jpg)

That is awesome.
My dad raised a pair of them when I was a kid. They wouldn't eat anything unless it was pretty much still warm. He would shoot a rabbit every couple days out back and give to them. As they matured, he started leaving them outside and they would roost in a tree. After a couple of weeks, they stopped coming back. I have a picture around here somewhere and dad has them on his arm.