From Conservative of SW Florida
Two great horned owlets were recently admitted to our wildlife hospital. The rescuer found one of the owlets near his back door/lanai. He knew that there were great horned owls in the area, but not exactly where the baby’s nest would be. The rescuer brought the baby to our wildlife staff and our veterinarian checked for injuries.
Our staff told him to keep an eye out for any activity such as parents or other siblings. The following day, he found the nest with the second sibling in it. Their parents had made a nest in a dead palm.
We sent one of our volunteers out to check the area and trees. When our volunteer arrived, she noticed that the second owlet had fallen as well. Once both babies were medically cleared, we were able to renest. A local tree company helped us put up a new nest. After the successful renesting their mother was seen back in the nest with her babies the next day.
I do not.
I am starting a volunteer position at my local rescue this weekend!
Did you have follow up questions about these guys?
No I’m just curious. You post so much in this com and you seem to have a lot of extra or inside info on these stories. I assume you work in some kind of owl related vet / rescue / rehab kind of job.
I learned most of it from posting here for the last 2 years. The more I learned, the more I saw there was to owls. I read articles and books on them, I’m subbed to around 100 rescues, read some research papers, and when I travel I’ll stop by places to see the owls in person and talk to their handlers. Now the next step is to try to work with them, and this year has been having me want to do something to make where I live a better place, so I joined my local rehab, which is coincidentally the largest in my state. I know from their posts and visiting their open house events that they do have owls, but it will probably be a bit before I can do much with them, but I’m sure I can talk to people that do and make connections.
Well good for you and good luck. I don’t really think of myself as an owl person, but you always make this com so interesting with your great posts. So thank you!
Always glad to hear I capture the interest of non-owl people. I just try to present things in a fun but educational way that I think could catch a bit of anyone’s attention. I never thought of myself as an owl person a few years ago, and just had a modest interest when I began posting here to keep the community alive. After learning about a number of the 250+ species and about all their evolutionary perks and how much we both know about them and don’t know about a lot of them, I just find them very fascinating now.
I hope you keep having a good time with us when something catches your eye!