From Raptors Rise Rehab Center

Meet Peanut, a nestling Eastern Screech Owl. His nest tree was cut down today with him still in it! The tree trimmer didn’t see the nest. But he did do the right thing and called for help. Animal Control officer Stuery retrieved the little guy and then met us with him.

Poor little Peanut was a bit shook up, as expected!

But now, Peanut is a monster! He doesn’t want to eat ! When you attempt to give him food with tweezers he grabs you with his talons. It’s funny, because he could fit into a coffee cup. Little bird, big attitude. He was very docile when we got him. We hydrated him with some diluted Gatorade and it really perked him up!

I’ve posted a couple pictures of his stance when I’m trying to get some food in him. I can almost hear him saying, “You’re not my mom!”

Thank you Officers Stuery and Kat for saving him and getting him to us! We appreciate you, even if he is a monster! Lol

  • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 days ago

    I’ve shared peaks once or twice, but I’ve been saving all my open house stuff to share at once.

    I didn’t make the plushies due to time and skill constraints. I think it the International Owl Center that shared once how they acquired a one-of-a-kind Blakistons Fish Owl plush in Japan to add to their collection of realistic plushies they had weighted to be an overall accurate owl, and I thought that was a great idea, since people can’t touch our real owls.

    Here are the Great Horn and Screech next to their more accurate life sized cutouts. My wife opened them up and we added beans to bump them to proper weight. Screech is right at 7 ounces, making her a female, and the GHO needed almost 2 pounds of beans to get him up to weight. It was hard to fit that many inside since the plush has a metal frame to keep its shape. It would have needed another full pound to be an average female.

    I made cut outs of wood for each of the 8 owls of Pennsylvania, so people could see them all right next to each other.

    I got magnets to snap them onto wood blocks so they can all stand up next to each other and I can rearrange them to compare and contrast at my owl info booth.

    They said they had a young man that could paint them and he sent this sneak peak of his work.

    They are a million times better than I would have been able to do. I said as long as they looked like decent clip art images I’d be happy! 😅

    I think he well exceeded that. I can’t wait to see all 8 in person. I’ve made fact sheets to go with them all also, and I will be there to talk everyone’s ears off about anything else owl related.