From Nancy B Toney
This Northern Hawk Owl took off from a perch while I was looking at my phone and within seconds had missed the entire flight. Luckily it went back to the same perch and did the entire sequence again.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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US Wild Animal Rescue Database: Animal Help Now
International Wildlife Rescues: RescueShelter.com
Australia Rescue Help: WIRES
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If you find an injured owl:
Note your exact location so the owl can be released back where it came from. Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialist to get correct advice and immediate assistance.
Minimize stress for the owl. If you can catch it, toss a towel or sweater over it and get it in a cardboard box or pet carrier. It should have room to be comfortable but not so much it can panic and injure itself. If you can’t catch it, keep people and animals away until help can come.
Do not give food or water! If you feed them the wrong thing or give them water improperly, you can accidentally kill them. It can also cause problems if they require anesthesia once help arrives, complicating procedures and costing valuable time.
If it is a baby owl, and it looks safe and uninjured, leave it be. Time on the ground is part of their growing up. They can fly to some extent and climb trees. If animals or people are nearby, put it up on a branch so it’s safe. If it’s injured, follow the above advice.
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I'm from the US, but bilingual, so I probably can't answer that as well as someone who grew up in a German speaking country. But each language has its own feeling. Different sounds and memories. Maybe kind of like how listening to different music can make you feel different. Sometimes I'll switch from one to the other to try to cheer myself up.
I think I can appreciate what you're saying about the "flavor" of the language. I was friends with a guy from Ukraine for a bit and when we'd talk about languages, many times he'd talk about how we're much more limited in swear words. I kind of remember him saying something along the lines of in Ukrainian he could kind of string some words together in a way that could turn pretty much anything into a swear if it was deemed necessary. I think he had a bit of undiagnosed depression, because we got along very well because he reminded me much of myself before I addressed my own depression and it helped me calm him down when he was pissing off everyone else.
I think you've validated my scrambled thoughts about the painting though. There's no reason not to include the original text for those who can appreciate it. It's there for those that want it, and anyone else is free to ignore it, especially the longer ones where I've stuck it under spoiler tags so the post isn't so long visually.
Plus as a bonus, it's another potential jumping off point for someone to bring up interesting points about those language differences. I enjoy the tangents we go on as much as the owl content. I help you guys learn about the owls, and you guys help me learn a bit about you and parts of your stories.
I don't think I've seen anyone else go to the trouble of posting in a language they didn't know. Pretty cool! Or in Romanian, you could call that "concrete" (as in the building material).
Good! I want everyone to feel included here. Especially as we got to the election, there seemed to be a growing frustration with the US-centric nature of many shared online spaces like this.
The topic of this community may be something inconsequential, but at the same time it's perfect, as there are great owls living everywhere, just like we have great people living everywhere, so it's a topic everyone has the opportunity to participate in.