From Wildlife in Need PA

🦉A Fierce Great Horned Owl ❤️

This Great Horned Owl (GHO) found herself in quite a predicament when she managed to get into a chicken coop and couldn’t find her way back out. The finder reached out to her friend Leigh, one of our Capture & Transport permitted volunteers, for help. During the rescue, it became clear that the owl had a serious eye injury.

According to Leigh, she was the most fierce Great Horned Owl she had ever captured! That feisty spirit would certainly come in handy on the road ahead.

The owl was transported to Dawn, a licensed vet tech and sub-permittee of Tamarack Wildlife Center (TWC), for immediate care. Her journey then included a trip to Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh (HAR) for surgical removal of the injured eye, followed by a return trip to Dawn to continue her recovery. After completing her antibiotics and passing her flight exam, she was finally ready to go home!

Leigh and Dawn shared the honor of releasing her fairly close to where she was found, giving her the opportunity to return to familiar territory… And true to form, this fierce girl wasn’t about to cooperate with any photo or video plans! 😂 She quickly flew towards the treetops and disappeared from sight.

A huge thank you to Leigh, Dawn, TWC, and HAR for helping this determined owl get her second chance at freedom!

  • anon6789OP
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    18 days ago

    I thought about throwing Mr Ed out as a reference, but I didn’t know how old you were 😅

      • anon6789OP
        2·
        18 days ago

        I’m kinda intrigued you guys got Mr Ed over there at all.

        • You@feddit.org
          2·
          18 days ago

          Successful shows are marketable. If they’re in English they will usually be picked up by TV around the globe.

          I don’t know how German shows that were successful in Germany are doing internationally. They also get picked up, but somehow I can’t really see them attracting a larger audience in other countries.

          Though streaming is changing things up. “Dark” did well.

          • anon6789OP
            2·
            18 days ago

            My wife watched Dark without me, so I’ve still not gotten around to seeing that myself. The one that comes to mind for me is Barbarians, about Teutoberg Forest. That was picked up by streaming here too.

            • You@feddit.org
              2·
              18 days ago

              Oh. Barbarians. Yes, first season was entertaining. For the second season their script (and “vision”) was so bad that their historical advisors quit. 🫣🤣

              • anon6789OP
                2·
                17 days ago

                My watch history showed I had only watched season 1 and I wondered why, but that probably explains it!

                  • anon6789OP
                    2·
                    17 days ago

                    That’s got to be frustrating for them. I know I was happy to see something about Germans other than the typical WW2 stuff, and it’s a shame they didn’t see more of a story in the actual history. The guy was fun in that video as well. I watched a related video but it had the AI dubbed voice and was rough after hearing him speak English on his own.