From A Place Called Hope

This sweet baby Eastern Screech Owl was delivered to the Torrington PD after being dropped by a hawk. The baby’s origin is unknown, but he is safe and has no real injuries!! So lucky and so cute.

Just a reminder to always make note of the location you pick up injured wildlife for the ultimate goal of return. It’s not always possible, like in this scenario, but when it is, it helps us to do the best for recovered patients.

  • Regna
    2•20 days ago

    You’re the one that gets all the people upset when there’s some rare salamander or endangered frog that holds up the bridge rebuild?

    Yep. I am a pest for those kinds of people. Although I admit that even when we created areas for ”salamander hotels”, frog tunnels under walkways and moved ponds and small waterways… it tended to help establish snake populations that can prey on salamanders and frogs more extensively. OTOH those snakes are also a protected species. So…

    Our biggest problem though tends to be NIMBY’s.

    • anon6789OP
      1•20 days ago

      I love all those animal tunnels and fish ladders and all that stuff! We don’t need to obliterate nature to have our modern necessities and conveniences, we just need to be thoughtful about it! We can and should do better.

      The NIMBYs are the worst. They want all this stuff, they just don’t want to have to think of the cost, or heaven forbid, have to live with the cost themselves.