crazy stuff with owls
May. 20th, 2003 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42I went home this weekend and there are owls living around my parents' house. They have boxes for various birds to use but we also saw a big nest in a tree. Until this weekend, we were aware of a screech owl living in one of the boxes and some kites living somewhere around. Now it looks like we also have great horned owls, or possibly long-eared owls. I wasn't sure because they were babies but they had the pointy horn things anyway.
On Monday (hooray for not being in school any more) I went out to get the mail and I found a little fuzzy baby screech owl just sitting on the lawn. It was so cute! But it couldn't move around too well and it looked like it was overheated. So my mom called up the Lindsey Museum, which is this place that takes in injured wildlife and baby birds that fell out of their nests and things. They said to bring it in. See, there are not-exactly-domesticated cats living in our field (our neighbors take care of them - had them spayed/neutered and leave food out for them and stuff) and if the other babies are indeed great horned owls then the baby screech owl would've been potential prey for the parents. So we put the baby in a shoebox and took it in. It didn't get too agitated or anything. It snapped its little beak at me, though. Aww! As soon as it's ok to be on its own, they're going to take it back to the area and release it. That's cool. Maybe it'll come back and use its owl powers to help us, and deliver our mail (I had to get that in here somewhere). We named it Floppy, because that's how it moved. I can just see it. I'll be like "sick 'em, Floppy" and my enemies will be like "Floppy? ha ha h-YAAAA!"
On Monday (hooray for not being in school any more) I went out to get the mail and I found a little fuzzy baby screech owl just sitting on the lawn. It was so cute! But it couldn't move around too well and it looked like it was overheated. So my mom called up the Lindsey Museum, which is this place that takes in injured wildlife and baby birds that fell out of their nests and things. They said to bring it in. See, there are not-exactly-domesticated cats living in our field (our neighbors take care of them - had them spayed/neutered and leave food out for them and stuff) and if the other babies are indeed great horned owls then the baby screech owl would've been potential prey for the parents. So we put the baby in a shoebox and took it in. It didn't get too agitated or anything. It snapped its little beak at me, though. Aww! As soon as it's ok to be on its own, they're going to take it back to the area and release it. That's cool. Maybe it'll come back and use its owl powers to help us, and deliver our mail (I had to get that in here somewhere). We named it Floppy, because that's how it moved. I can just see it. I'll be like "sick 'em, Floppy" and my enemies will be like "Floppy? ha ha h-YAAAA!"
