Wildside Rehabilitation and Education – Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:02:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://owlsintowels.org/content/media/tBNh7to.png Wildside Rehabilitation and Education – Owls in Towels https://owlsintowels.org/ 32 32 Renesting Success https://owlsintowels.org/renesting-success/ https://owlsintowels.org/renesting-success/#respond Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://owlsintowels.org/?p=3583 Slightly larger than a golf ball is the white fluffy head of a Great Horned Owlet emerging from the folds of an off-white towel the tone of baby powder. His beak is too large for him, and seems to comprise half his total body weight. His eyes are black and half shut, with the slightest tinge of pink on the eyelids. He's just a wittle baby.

Original post – 18 Mar 2025
by Wildside Rehabilitation and Education
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Renesting a Great Horned Owlet was a success! The nest and baby were blown down in the wind storm. The finder called Wildside and Angel and Eleanor went to the rescue! The mom and baby were on the ground together, so we had a good idea that renesting would work!

We first needed a nest, then Jonah as the climber, went into action.

Panel one: a blue plastic washing basket is prepared like a forbidden salad: a bed of pine needles filled with wood shavings. Yum. Panel two: The makeshift nest is secured to a tree with yellow and blue bungee cords around the branches and trunk. Panel three: Close-up of the owlet lifted by the rehabber standing on a ladder in white coveralls. One hand is black-gloved, the other bare, together cradling the fluffy cargo and delivering him to his totally normal and not weird nest.

Baby was checked out, warmed and put into the nest once the nest was secured to the tree. Mom owl returned to the make shift nest within 2 hours!

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SpeciesCommon NameMore info
Bubo virginianusGreat Horned OwlWiki link
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