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
    2·
    11 days ago

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

    • You@feddit.org
      2·
      10 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·
        10 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·
          10 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·
            10 days ago

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

              • anon6789OP
                2·
                10 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.

                • You@feddit.org
                  2·
                  10 days ago

                  They only have a few English videos. And the

                  AI dubbed voice

                  is YT’s new strategy to keep you interested. It’s likely not the channel’s choice but automatically chosen by YT for your “viewing pleasure”. 😅

                  I encountered the same “helpful service” when watching original English content. You should be able to select subtitles and the original audiotrack through the menu ⚙️.

                  • anon6789OP
                    2·
                    10 days ago

                    I am so beyond frustrated with Youtube anymore.

                    All these UI changes and they have the Chromecast integration so beyond screwed up it’s practically painful to cast things to my tv. And the integration with Home has been screwed up for months now, where it says it will rewind or jump ahead but it does nothing. Get your dang act together, Google! 🤨

                    I had been hoping it was an actual dub person/group doing it, like the Garage 54 videos are all pretty monotone and lifeless, but they make sense and the pronunciation is good.

                    I know they can do better, on my phone I’ve watched German animal videos before and my Android live translates the captions and it’s fine. There is just such a lack of refinement across the board right now, and such a downgrade of the whole product line from just a few months to a year ago. I’ll have to play with the language and sub setting and see what I can get going. I’m glad to find interesting creators in whatever language as long as it isn’t more of the rampant AI content I keep getting spammed with by the YT algorithm.