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Owl looking for a chicken
dinner........
About 2am on a cold night in Nov
2005, we heard a commotion coming from our chicken coop.
The dogs were barking and the chickens were flying out of the
coop door, which is the size of a doggie door. Steve went
out to see what it was, expecting to find a
coyote or fox. He found a huge
owl had flown into the chicken coop, looking for a
chicken dinner. But once he got in there, it was having
trouble getting out. The owl was surprisingly docile; allowing
us to pick him up to remove him.
We checked him out to ensure it wasn't injured in some
fashion and there appeared to be nothing wrong except for his beak
was scratched up a bit. So we let him go and he simply flew off.
We see him around occasionally and hear him and his buddies at dusk all the
time. But to our
knowledge, he's never tried again to get a chicken dinner by flying
through the coop door.
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