My 93 year old father and my brother are visiting for the 4th. They wanted to see the place where I work so we stopped by at noon on Saturday. I was startled when I saw what looked like an ugly owl stuffed figure on the wood furniture under the Calf picture. It did not belong and I thought someone was playing a JOKE! My brother always has his camera with him and he looked at it with a zoom and said, "IT'S ALIVE..." We were sure it was alive when I noticed a few spots on the wall paper that looked like it had hit the wall. I finally gathered my senses and called security and they promised to send someone over. We continued our tour and the owl did not move from it's spot and we walked very carefully through to the dining room and upstairs.
The officer arrived about 12:15 and noted that we were upstairs. He made noise and the frightened OWL flew around the living room a bit, until the officer was able to scoop it up in his hands and send him out the door. He said it was just a baby and did not seem to be injured.
There are 15 spots on the walls and ceiling that the owl hit and left marks as he tried to get out. He also left bird POOP ( gross!) on four pieces of furniture. I placed pink sticky notes where we saw the poop, but I'm not sure we saw it all. there are a few owl feathers around too.
How did the owl arrive inside the house? I am pretty sure he came in through the chimney flue. There is a knob there and the directions on the fireplace state to turn clockwise to open. The knob seems to be turned to the open position!!
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