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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.
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From Joshua N Wiley
Incoming. A Short-eared Owl banks and flies straight towards me on what was probably my best day ever photographing Shorties. She was already clutching a vole.
1/6/24.
Nikon Z9, 600 mm, f/4, ISO 1000, 1/1600 second.
Pickaway County, of course! (Ohio)
That's such a great angle with the wings
They seem so acrobatic and I always love the awkward stares they give the camerapeople. I'd love to see them flying in person some day and doing their clapping divebomb to impress the lady owls.
Ooh
How could a lady owl not be wowwed by that?!
Right??
bad bunny no match for superb_owl.
You can't run from what you can't hear coming!