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    You don't get THIS with a fake Christmas tree!

    A Georgia family found an owl hiding in their Christmas tree

    By Leah Asmelash, CNN
    Updated 10:44 AM ET, Thu December 19, 2019


    Atlanta (CNN)A Georgia family got a special holiday surprise last week after finding an owl hiding inside their Christmas tree.

    The discovery came last Thursday evening when Katie McBride Newman and her two children, India and Jack, were finishing dinner.
    India, 10, had started to clear the table and was in another room when Newman heard her exclaim, "Oh my gosh!"
    "She comes very dramatically into the dining room and goes, 'Mama, that ornament scared me,'" Newman told CNN. "Then she bursts into tears."





    Newman said she's a big fan of owls, so the tree actually had about a dozen owl ornaments gracing its branches. At first, Newman said she thought India had just been spooked by one of those.
    So Newman checked it out, ready to calm her daughter's fears. But when she peered into the tree for the ornament, she saw the owl turn its head and look straight at her.
    "And I'm like, 'Oh, that's a real owl,'" Newman said. Meanwhile, India had disappeared into the other room, in tears again.
    Owl may have been in their tree for over a week

    The family had purchased the tree from a store about two days after Thanksgiving, so at first they thought the owl must have flown in and taken refuge inside their tree, Newman's husband, Billy, told CNN.
    The family left their windows and doors open that night, hoping the bird would leave on its own -- but it didn't.
    The next day, they called the Chattahoochee Nature Center, a non-profit environmental center about an hour away from their home in Newnan. An employee there told them to leave the owl some raw chicken, concerned it may not have eaten in a few days.

    Who needs a tree topper when you have an owl?




    The employee stopped by Saturday morning. She caught the bird and identified it as an Eastern screech owl, common in the Georgia area, a spokesperson for the nature center, Jon Copsey, told CNN. She also checked for injuries and gave it some food and nutritional supplements.
    The owl was pretty thin, igniting the theory that the bird must have been inside the tree since they bought it, Billy Newman said.
    Returning the owl to the wild

    The employee left the family some instructions: Leave the bird in a crate in a darkened room and release it after dark.
    At dusk on Saturday, the family left the open crate outside. By 9:30 p.m., the owl had disappeared.


    Copsey said the family did everything right in the situation -- closing it off from the rest of the house, trying to help it escape on its own and calling a wildlife rehabilitation professional.
    Katie Newman, though, says she swears she can still hear the owl at night, hooting away.
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    Nothing like being home for the holidays!


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    Re: You don't get THIS with a fake Christmas tree!

    That's such a cool story, at least it was a happy ending for the owl

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    Re: You don't get THIS with a fake Christmas tree!

    Very cool story. Thanks for sharing!
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    Yay for happy endings!!

    I work in hospice and heard a story that happened on one of our palliative care units (like a hospital but smaller). A patient had recently passed away in the room, and the staff had cleaned the room and left the balcony doors open to air it out. They went back in and found a Great Horned Owl perched on the foot of the bed! They tried to get it to move with a broom but apparently it didn't want to leave yet. It opened its wings and hissed at them. They backed off, closed the door the hallway, and let it be. They checked later and it had gone.
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    Thanks Bogie, I enjoyed that.

    I have owls in my neighborhood. In the summer I walk my dogs during the coolest part of the day which is 2-4 am; most mornings I can hear the owls talking to each other all throughout the neighborhood.
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    I also think it's really interesting how they already loved owls & had owl ornaments on the tree...very strange. (Owl ornaments sound pretty cool too, I've never seen any?)
    Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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    HAHAHAHA! I know what happened! they smuggled the owl in there tree!!!
    Owl smugglers!!!

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    Re: You don't get THIS with a fake Christmas tree!

    That is just too cool! Glad they helped the Owl and it ended happy for all!!

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