{"id":2974,"date":"2014-07-19T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2014-07-19T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:11:10","slug":"eastern-screech-owl-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Screech-owl Release!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, Tricia and I were fortunate enough to be present for the release of not one, but three EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS. The owls were all injured in the Warwick area and rehabilitated by Missy Runyan at the Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Center.<\/a>\u00a0Our friend Carol Linguanti, who is also a wildlife rehabber, was given the wonderful task of releasing the birds and invited me along to witness and take some photos. This, of course made me nervous about getting good shots, but I was thrilled to have the opportunity. Our first stop was at Homestead Village, where one of the birds was found on the lawn of a resident. Since the bird was brought in for rehabilitation a short time ago, it was released in the same spot where it was picked up. Here are some shots from the release:<\/p>\n

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An Eastern Screech-owl seems to be waiting\u00a0for its eyes to adjust to the light before being released. Warwick, NY 7\/18\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The EASO was out of the box before I knew it, but I did manage one silhouetted flight shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tricia<\/a>
Tricia faired much better from the other side, getting this shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The owl perched on a nearby branch for probably less than a minute and then seemed to get its bearings and took off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second and third owls apparently had been in rehab for a longer period of time, during which, they bonded. They were to be released together on a large tract of land that Carol owns in Warwick. This release was made even more exciting with the sighting of\u00a0TWO BEARS! How good can it get? Here are the photos from that release:<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a>
Getting ready to be free again, one rufous and one gray Eastern Screech-owl. \u00a0Photo by Carol Linguanti, Warwick, NY 7\/18\/14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This<\/a>
This EASO behaved similarly to the first release, perching nearby for a short period of time before taking off into the woods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The first bear we saw was relatively small, presumably a young bear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The second bear was huge and Carol’s husband Bobby was very excited when we watched the bear use the bridge that Bobby had built to get over a stream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I really cannot thank Carol enough for inviting me to be part of this. It\u00a0was so exciting to get to see these owls up close and fulfilling to know that they had been successfully rehabbed and now were back where they belonged.<\/p>\n

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Last night, Tricia and I were fortunate enough to be present for the release of not one, but three EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS. The owls were all injured in the Warwick area and rehabilitated by Missy Runyan at the Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Center.\u00a0Our friend Carol Linguanti, who is also a wildlife rehabber, was … Continue reading “Eastern Screech-owl Release!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,19,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-raptors","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-LY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}