{"id":33984,"date":"2015-09-10T04:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=33984"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:21:20","slug":"barn-owl-hung-up-on-barbed-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/barn-owl-hung-up-on-barbed-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Owl Hung Up On Barbed Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe me, this was a traumatic event for all concerned.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33985\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/barn-owl-hung-up-on-barbed-wire\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1441786012","copyright":"","focal_length":"271","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.0008","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"barn owl 8407 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"barn owl 8407 ron dudley\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/barn-owl-8407-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning while driving west on the South Road in the Centennial Valley of southwest Montana\u00a0we found this beautiful Barn Owl hanging from barbed wire along the side of the road. In its struggles to escape the owl had wrapped its wing around the sharp double barb that had penetrated its flesh to the point that it was bleeding and I couldn’t get the owl off the wire easily. First I cut\u00a0both barbs off but I still couldn’t disentangle the owl so I had to cut out a 2′ piece of the wire with the owl still attached to it.<\/p>\n<p>Then\u00a0we laid the owl on my pickup tailgate (partially wrapped in a towel) and began the extraction process. At that point a near-miracle occurred. A car drove up on the deserted road and it happened to be Bill West, Manager of nearby Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Bill was on his way to a meeting in Dillon (roughly 80 miles away) and helped me to extract the owl from the wire. We wrapped it up in his jacket and Bill took it to the Humane Society in Dillon where arrangements were made to transport it to a rescue center in Bozeman.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/barn-owl-hung-up-on-barbed-wire\/fence-5673-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1441795132","copyright":"","focal_length":"26","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.000625","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"fence 5673 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"fence 5673 ron dudley\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5673-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My next concern was the wire I had cut. “Cuttin’ fences” is serious business in cattle country – cows can get out and both people and cows can be killed in accidents when they do, not to mention the fact that ranchers aren’t happy when they have to chase down their cattle.<\/p>\n<p>So after a while I went back to the fence and patched it temporarily with a piece of rope and Mia tied a couple of pieces of yellow ribbon on the posts so that the folks that Bill sent to repair the fence could find the break. You can see my patch of the top wire at the top of the vertical wire.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33987\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/barn-owl-hung-up-on-barbed-wire\/fence-5674-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1441795147","copyright":"","focal_length":"28","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.000625","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"fence 5674 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"fence 5674 ron dudley\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fence-5674-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A closer look at the patch job. I hope it holds until they get it repaired.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I can only hope the owl survives, can be rehabilitated and released back into the wild. It is a stunningly beautiful bird\u00a0and it was scared to death yet it was gentle with us as we tried to get it off the wire.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p><em>PS – Barn Owls are virtually unheard of\u00a0in Montana so that makes me even more hopeful that this one can be returned to where it was found. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe me, this was a traumatic event for all concerned. Yesterday morning while driving west on the South Road in the Centennial Valley of southwest Montana\u00a0we found this beautiful Barn Owl hanging from barbed wire along the side of the road. In its struggles to escape the owl had wrapped its wing around the sharp double barb that had penetrated its flesh to the point that it was bleeding and I couldn’t get the owl off the wire easily. First I cut\u00a0both barbs off but I still couldn’t disentangle the owl so I had to cut out a 2′ piece of the wire with the owl still attached to it. Then\u00a0we laid the owl on my pickup tailgate (partially wrapped in a towel) and began the extraction process. At that point a near-miracle occurred. A car drove up on the deserted road and it happened to be Bill West, Manager of nearby Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Bill was on his way to a meeting in Dillon (roughly 80 miles away) and helped me to extract the owl from the wire. We wrapped it up in his jacket and Bill took it to the Humane Society in Dillon where arrangements were made to transport it to a rescue center in Bozeman. My next concern was the wire I had cut. “Cuttin’ fences” is serious business in cattle country – cows can get out and both people and cows can be killed in accidents when they do, not to mention the fact…<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/barn-owl-hung-up-on-barbed-wire\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334],"tags":[603,45,1597,555,2668,2667,220,263,2666,309],"class_list":["post-33984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-barbed-wire","tag-barn-owl","tag-bill-west","tag-centennial-valley","tag-dillon","tag-humane-society","tag-montana-2","tag-red-rock-lakes-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-tangled-in-fence","tag-tyto-alba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-8Q8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}