South Essex Wildlife Hospital – Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:29:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://owlsintowels.org/content/media/tBNh7to.png South Essex Wildlife Hospital – Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ 32 32 Grumpy Little Owl https://owlsintowels.org/grumpy-little-owl/ https://owlsintowels.org/grumpy-little-owl/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://owlsintowels.org/?p=3736 A Little Owl is bundled in a baby blue towel on a table with an expression of malcontent. His eyes are squinted and slightly crossed, and match his waxy yellow beak in colour. He appears chinless, recessing his head into his body; eyes at the same level as his shoulders and squashed as though someone had tried resizing him in a Word document and forgot to lock the aspect ratio.

Original post – 29 May 2022
by South Essex Wildlife Hospital

located in Orsett, Essex, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
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Original text:

a few snaps of recent patients, just a few of the thousand that have arrived this month. 😊

a little [owl] who fell down a chimney was dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home.

In the comments it appears South Essex Wildlife Hospital called upon the chimney-owners to release (upon a clean bill of health) the Little Owl back to where he was found:

We got the owl home safe and sound and took him out to the back garden where we let him go. It was so lovely to see him fly off.

Link to donate to South Essex Wildlife Hospital for those willing and able.

xo owlsintowels

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SpeciesCommon NameMore info
Athene noctuaLittle OwlWiki link
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