Hayes noticed the tree was swaying a bit and then discovered the owl sitting on a lower limb of the tree, he told AP. “It crawled up into the tree further,” Hayes told AP.

The hook-impaled owl had hanged there, part in the water and part out, hopelessly struggling to free itself. It had become another victim of a "limb line" abandoned by some irresponsible angler.

A baby owl is found sitting in a Christmas tree in Lexington, Kentucky, on Nov. 27, 2023. ... “The owl was literally sitting on a lower limb here,” Hayes said.

‘Shaving is tricky with an owl on your right shoulder.” So writes Martin Windrow, a British bachelor who in the spring of 1978 decided to adopt a month-old tawny owl as his flatmate in a ...

A baby owl is found sitting in a Christmas tree in Lexington, Kentucky, on Nov. 27, 2023. ... “The owl was literally sitting on a lower limb here,” Hayes said.