We found the Eastern Screech Owlet on Sunday, June 9th. We were having M's 8th Birthday party and I had asked my dad to bring up his saw to cut down a couple pine trees that were planted too close together. While he was cutting down limbs to get to the base of the tree, he found the owlet sleeping, not scared at all by the sound that the saw was making. He yelled that he had found a baby owl and everyone came to see it and took pictures. Ironically we had been discussing owls earlier in the day and my Grandma had said that she had not heard one in her neighborhood in awhile. The pine tree that he was in is right next to the sidewalk. Dad had cut down branches exposing him to the world. We put some of the branches up to the tree to create a covering. I was worried that he would not make it.
The following day I went to check on him in the morning and he was still in the pine tree. He had moved over a branch or two. I let our neighbor and mail lady know about him so he had a lot of visiting that day. During the day he also moved to a higher branch in the tree.
On the third day of us knowing about his existence when I went to check on him in the morning he was gone. I was a little disappointed but had known all along that this might happen. Around dinner time I was staring out the window and saw something in a tree and quickly went investigating to see if it was him. I was sad when I found it was only a branch. But when I turned I saw him in a totally different tree. I thank God for this second opportunity of finding him.
Tooki sleeping
I made a quiet sound and he woke up and looked at me
This morning, the forth day, he is not in the pine tree or the second tree. We will keep looking for him and hopefully will spot him again soon.
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