[TN-Bird] Eastern Screech Owl and fledgling

From: "Ginger Goolsby" <vgoolsby@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "TN-BIRDS" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:23:56 -0400
Wednesday afternoon; May 11, 2011
 

I had a neat experience when I was coming back to work at lunchtime. I
topped the little hill on my residential street and saw 2 somethings sitting
on the edge of the pavement. I first thought they were squirrels so I
swerved over, but as I passed I decided it looked more like the outline of a
small owl. I stopped and looked back; amazingly it still looked like the
outline of an owl, so I got out of my car and walked back. Mama Screech Owl
flew as I approached; however, Junior, a little grey ball of fluff with big
owl eyes, remained on the street. Fearing the next car might not see the
bird, I picked the fledgling up and carried it a short distance to a line of
bushes in the direction that mama owl had flown. I then left with a prayer
that mama would come back. Amazingly, I have not heard an Eastern Screech
Owl in my neighborhood so I have no idea where she may have nested. Must
have been close though, because Junior was just a ball of fluff.

 

I'm still marveling at my luck for holding, ever so briefly, a fledgling
screech owl in my hands.

 

Ginger Goolsby

Morristown, Hamblen County

 



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