SNOWY OWL RESCUE

You never know what a day will bring. About 9 A. M. Friday morning our neighbor called to report a light colored owl was just sitting in a road ditch close to her house. We headed over and her husband was there and reported that owl seemed to be injured. It was a Snowy Owl from the tundra of Canada and did indeed seem to be injured. It could hop but could not fly. We didn't really know what to do, so we called an expert owl contact at the Houston Nature Center. We thought she might send help, but instead gave us explicit instructions on how to do a live bird capture. We called some birding friends to fumble through this with us, and proceeded with trepidation. We carefully followed the instructions and it went surprisingly well.