GHO hit not once, but TWICE by cars! Enjoying a meal of jumbo mice.
Here’s what DOW wildlife officer Jeromy Huntington says about his very early morning “wake-up call” from Colorado Springs Police Department, who named the owl Lucky.
“When I got the wakeup call early AM, a guy hit the owl somewhere near Powers and Briargate Pkwy. The guy did not know what happened to the owl until he pulled into the YMCA parking lot near Austin Bluffs and Family Place and noticed the owl on top of his luggage rack, holding on. Before the owl was able to be captured, it flew off into the street to be hit by a different car for the second time. PD captured the bird for me and kept an eye on it until I arrived to take to the vet. I thought I had a bad start by getting woke up from the phone call… this owl had a worst one by getting hit twice.”