[Closed] I rescued a Tawny Owl today that was caught in barbed wire 🙁

Well done. Have some karma points. Hope the cuts aren't too deep! 😉

I startled a barnowl under a bridge the other day. Flopped off it perch onto the mud gave me a dirty look and tried to fly off straight into a thistle with wings outstretched. Fortunately it soryed itself out and flew off. All i broad daylight.

Good job.

Great job.

I once 'ran over' a Barn owl. It was slumped in the middle of the road at night. As I approached it looked like a bin bag or similar so drove over it with my wheels either side.

It wasn't until I was passing over it I realised what it was. We stopped and luckily it was just dazed from its previous encounter, as we stopped a local walked past who knew of someone nearby who could help so we boxed it up and off it went.

I'm not sure if it was because it had had a knock, but it was very calm.

The Tawny went quite calm when it was talked to. It seemed to know that we were trying to help.

Good man you can be proud of yourself...

That second picture has to become a meme

Nice one

Good work!

We done redthunder, the poor thing looks in real distress

I recently had to secure one that had fallen down a neighbour's chimney. Everything you ever heard about the sharpness of their talons is true.

Great work. Will they keep you updated on the owls progress?

Good effort!

Well done you. I hope it makes a full recovery.

Good work

I hear they’re delicious.

A weird dichotomy of fantastic pictures, but sad to look at.

Nice work ..thats great news.

Not delicious at all. Ask Mr [url= https://britishfoodhistory.com/2011/07/26/charles-darwin-and-the-owl/ ]Darwin[/url].
But well done OP.

What a beautiful bird, hope it recovers. Largest thing I ever rescued was a young Moorhen that had swallowed a fishing maggot complete with hook, then got the residual fishing line tangled in undergrowth.

Crapped all over the jumper I wrapped it up in. 😆 You're brave tucking that inside your coat!

Not delicious at all. Ask Mr Darwin.

Apparently they taste 'owlin'

Fantastic.
Well done fella.

Thanks guys. Let hope the owl makes it 🙂

It had no chance if I didn't find it today, poor bugger strung up like that.

I thought it was dead at first. Got a couple of pix from distance and decided I wanted better picture. Climbed into the compound it was in (fence) and the bird started moving.

Then "A&E Owl 24 Hour Rescue" mode kicked in 😉

I have asked for update.

The guys who collected it from me were:

Oak and Furrows Wildlife Rescue
http://www.oandf.co.uk/

PS I just slung them a £25 donation. If it don't help the owl I'm sure it will help other animals in their care.

Poor thing.

Good work OP.

Beautiful bird.

Top job redthunder!

Good work - raptor'ous applause. Hope it has a happy ending.

Years ago I was driving along and saw a kestrel dive down heading for something at the side of the road but instead of a mouse it bombed into the front wing of my Capri! Obviously I thought that was that for the poor thing so carried on my way. An hour later I came back the same way and saw the bird at the side of the road, still alive, A) despite hitting a ton of metal and B) surviving heavy traffic on an A road! I got out and stuffed it in my jacket and took it to the nearest vet. It was blinded in one eye so it was passed on to a bird sanctuary for breeding purposes. The lasting impression of it all was the impression it made in my front wing!

🙂 🙂 Good man .

Holy crap.

Well done you. I'm not sure as I'd have been that brave, unless it was properly docile. Having been to an owl sanctuary, well, all I can say is that I'm bloody glad I'm not a dormouse.

We have a few that roost in the trees at work. They are quite vocal during the day , I thought they were nocturnal .
Very occaisionally see them hunting in the feild on my way into work. We also have a very large Kestrel , lots of Buzzards and a few Kites in and around the farm .
No barn owls though , might stick a box up see if we can get one of them too.

That is alot of barbed wire , military ? Surprised not more stuff gets caught up tbh . Good for you for releasing it.

Good on you OP.

That little owl must be in pain.

Twit twit toooooo

I was going to say I don’t give a hoot,but I do really !

3 cheers

Twit twit tooooo x3

Well done OP.

I found a badly injured owl in our garden last night so I tried to put it out of its misery.
Took three sodding hours to wring its neck.

Well done OP.

I'm a mouse and you're a bastid!

Well done buddy that’s a great thing to do

How exactly did you remove it? And how did you deal with the beak and talons?

(Good work by the way, I'm genuinely interested)

great effort!

I did similarly with a buzzard that had struck a wire but with a far worse ending. It's broken wing bones had pierced through the skin.

The sanctuary humanely destroyed the bird but surprisingly let me keep it to show to my classes in school. They were impressed too, as was I. They are BIG birds.

Nice one redthunder, Oak and Furrows are struggling financially currently so double kudos for the donation to them as well

Superlatives don't do justice to what you've achieved.

Well done for saving that bird. Made me 😀

Wow, well done on the rescue!

I don't carry anything on me while riding that would cut through barbed wire.

Great work! I love owls, glad to hear you rescued it.

Hope the owl recovers.
2017 had been a really tough year for Owls. The cold and wet spring resulted in low numbers of chicks. Experts said the weather was to blame, quite simply "it was just too wet too woo"

IGMC....

Good job. 😀

Any news on the owl?