[HELP!] How to save a TC Owl..?!

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 18:19

5 pm today. Coming back from a pleasant stay at Jessic's. Smoking in the garden and looking around me - seeing an owl on the pole of our electricity supply. Calling my wife, "Trix, come quick, there's an owl trying to nestle on the pole!" (experts may laugh, but I'm not a bird expert...). A closer look now: the small owl was caught with his claw between the pole and the electricity cable. Big problem, because I don't like ladders against poles, 6 metres or so high, at all. But someone had to do it. The pictures tell the story, the small owl is free and may nestle - somewhere else...

http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/DSCN7518_72.jpg

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http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/DSCN7524_cut_72.jpg

http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/DSCN7525_72.jpg

Yes, thank you, I'm fine and safe on the ground also...

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 18:50

OMG. I see that it is "to nest" and not "to nestle". Sorry!

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 18:53

Dear DC,



Did the owl say thank you? At this height (6 m!) you risked your life!



P.S. Can not open the first picture.

flightholiday


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 18:57

Well done Hans

Journalist/cartographer/bird preserver

goonerstan



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 18:59

great pictures hans, glad all ended well,

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 19:07

Dear all, I really appreciate advice from people who stay on the safe ground, while I...

billyboy1


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 19:08

Well done Hans



Great pictures



Hero of the day award goes to you

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 19:09

Uploading the pictures: at the moment my connection to the Internet ("Internjet") is bad so the pics I tried to upload may show errors. I'll replace them in a couple of minutes.

newlad



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 19:32

Every picture tells a story,and the third one down certainly does.Its as if the owl is asking to be rescued.Well done Hans, for someone who didnt want to climb up there you have done brilliant.You can look back on this experience as being a hoot,

Paul.

roblyn


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 19:36

What a lovely story and wonderful pictures.Thankyou so much for sharing

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 20:04

The owl and the pussy cat!



Richard

swannee7


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 20:30

Brilliant, DC ! I agree with Paul that the owl seems quite resigned to its situation and is willing to accept your help. Must have been exhausted poor thing. I THINK its a Cypriot Skops ow, l but ......? How brave of you to go up there - a real Crusader! As already mentioned, the whole episode is a real hoot!

chinaeyes


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 20:43

Great pictures Hans,i was expecting Trix up the ladders! Were my eyes decieving me or were your ladders the wrong way over, you must of been very brave to climb them like that. HAHAHA.Well done.

newlad



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 21:18

I have done a bit of twitching in my time and i would say that was a Tawny owl,

Paul.

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 21:53

Paul

After a bottle of tawny port getting a bit of Dutch courage, Hans wasn't twitching at all!



Richard

newlad



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 22:01

Rich,

A very decent act from Dutch.The old bazooka woud have got it down quicker (joke)

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 22:04

Great photos as usual Hans. I don't know owl you do it. )

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 22:23

Hans was having a hoot!



Richard

newlad



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 22:32

I thought he would have thrown the towl in,

Paul.

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 22:36

Probably barn storming!



Richard

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 22:37

Hans are you sure it was you who climbed the ladder and not Trix?



Fabulous photos though.



Chris

Lilli



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 23:10

Hans you never miss a photo opportunity but they are great, you are a brave man. must have been your chess win against guido that spurred you one, seriously well done but please dont bring him to me i dont have an outlet for birds yet xxxxx

newlad



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 23:16

Hopefully the owls talon is fine and is back to killing its prey,

Paul.

jock1



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 23:18

Hans your my hero, i want your autograph....

jock1



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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 23:19

In fact i want your babies.....

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 23:31

Jock1

Looking for an owlet for your birch?



Richard

dizzycows


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Message Posted:
25/03/2010 23:40

Jock1 you crack me up, you are a nutter,x



Well done DC for having a go and winning!



In GB for this sort of rescue, you would have had ten police cars, two helicopters, 6 fire engines, 20 health and safety busy bodies, and a road block!!!

Lilli



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 00:06

Dizz thank god we are not in the uk, i would be prosecuted for being a dog handler, I admire Hans so much for his act of bravery, but then i just admire Hans full stop x

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 09:04

RE msg 13, chinaeyes: (...) Great pictures Hans,i was expecting Trix up the ladders! Were my eyes decieving me or were your ladders the wrong way over, you must of been very brave to climb them like that. HAHAHA.Well done. (...)

=> You're right! I was so busy that I didn't realise how the ladders should be used! I'll check that more thorough next time...

ricky


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 12:14

Fantastic work Dutch. What would the world be without flying hollanders!

Harold2555



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 13:10

Hans



Good work, as a fellow distruster of heights (I'm not scared of heights, just falling ), I commend your courage.



Was the owl happy to be rescued or was it a struggle? Those beaks are dangeous!



Harold

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 13:37

RE msg 31, Harold2555: The owl didn't even try to damage my hands. When I bent away the cable the bird was released and flew away. We have two owls in our area and this one may have been one of the couple. I hope to see him/her back again on top of the pole, where one of the owls usually sits, looking down for some prey. Fascinating view when you see them dive, the wings not making a sound!

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 13:46

Jock, I'm getting worried about you. Owl are you by the way?

newlad



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 14:07

Hans,

Was it a Tawny owl,

Paul.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 14:23

RE msg 34, newlad: Paul, when animals can fly they are usually birds or dragons. That's all I know...

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 15:10

Don't ask me - Owl would I know?

newlad



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 15:40

Hans,

It was definiteley a bird,

Paul.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 15:44

Newlad: so "Saint Hans and the Dragon" is out of the question, you think?

Harold2555



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 15:53

Hans



To become the patron saint of England you need to be Turkish and to not speeak English. You also need to have never visited England. I suspect you fail on all three criteria.



Harold

ROBnJO


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 16:01

Surely the 'Bird Man of Yesiltepe' is appropriate?

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 16:47

Good for you Hans, no health & safety problem there. A daredevil 5yr old boy who got stuck up a tree at school had to stay there for 1hr because H & S rules denied teachers from rescuing him, instead staff retreated indoors to "observe from a distance". A passer by a woman climbed over a locked gate and rescued him only to get in trouble when the school reported her to the police and she was visited by a community support office and given a verbal warning for "anti-social behavour".

Snaefell



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 17:50

Glad the owl was freed, he was very lucky you noticed him. Not comfy place to nestle at all .... and you were very brave going up that ladder!

decanddyl


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 18:26

Hi Hans,

Well done releasing the owl, hope your going to enter the face on picture of the owl into the Ozankoy

show (photography section).



Mrs D.

JohhnyLee


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 19:25

Hans, I have said it before you are true star.

MartinM


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 19:40

Thank you very much Hans. Owls are much maligned in this part of the world as harbingers of death. An excellent job of rescuing.

AlsancakJack



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 19:46

Hans

I hope you did not damage the pole.

swannee7


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 19:56

Wonderful, witty comments from everyone on this thread! Great punning. Lovely end to the week!

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 23:16

RE msg 46, AJ: (...) Hans. I hope you did not damage the pole. "

=> AJ, this is the wrong thread, I know. However: ladder (8 metres) for sale...

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 23:18

Owl much do you want for it Hans? )

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
26/03/2010 23:41

Must be a first that a post from Hans made it a 'hot' one without being hijacked! He must be climbing up the ladder and flying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp18sKXaFlE !



Richard