Rescued Owl Falters
That makes two barred owls to appear at local homes recently.
A barred owl found at a Swampscott home on Thursday was the second such owl to make an appearance at a local home in little more than a week. The latest bird did not survive but the Beach Bluff Avenue family who found him in their yard under a tree and the animal control officer who brought him to an animal hospital tried to save him. Thursday morning at about 7 Swampscott animal control officer Diane Treadwell was called to the Beach Bluff home, not far from Preston Beach. The owl was unable to stand and the residents had placed him in a box. Treadwell drove him to the Danvers Animal Hospital which has a vet who specializes in raptor care. The owl may have been stricken with a virus. He did not respond to medication and when his …
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NaemhOisin
9:24 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
My daughter told me that on her drive to Boston the other morning she and other commuters saw what she thought was a dead owl in the road---and of course I said, "nooooo, must have been something else"...now I wonder; but i cannot remember where she said she was at that point in her commute though - could have been revere more ›