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The owl flies again Just before Christmas we found a weak and poorly owl sitting in a field. Damian collected it up, put it in his lunch box and brought it back to the farm. I contacted our electrical engineer Peter, who by day looks after all things electrical for us and other local companies, and when not working, is a registered rehabilitation keeper of birds of prey. Peter has been looking after injured birds of prey and other wildlife for many years. He takes birds from the RSPB, local vets and others, purely on a voluntary basis, for the love of rehabilitating wild animals. I took the owl to Peter, which we had identified as a male Long Eared Owl (Asio otus), a medium sized nocturnal and secretive owl. They are rare in the UK, with only between 1,500 and 4,700 known pairs. They are also extremely beautiful and are easily recognised by the long tufts of head feathers which look like ears, and deep orange eyes. Ollie, as he was named, had been run over by a vehicle, suffered a broken pelvis and had lost the use of his legs, as well as some of his tail feathers. He had just about given up the will to live. He was given the correct medicines, hand fed for the first week and after a few weeks he was back to full health, and ready to return to the wild. One evening at dusk we took him back the field and released him. He flew off into a nearby hedge, had a little look around and flew off into the increasing darkness. I haven’t seen any sign of him since, which is apparently a good sign. Well done Peter, another success story and happy patient
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