It was thought that they would throw a line around the branch it was perched on and then give it a big tug and the branch would break and down the owl would come. The only trouble was the line was
also attached to another branch and if the first branch broke and the line attached to the other branch didn’t, the owl would probably just dangle in mid-air.
So with the help of my ladder the male carer climbed the ladder and broke the line using a saw tied to a long handle of a net. It was
improvise time. Once the line was cut from the second branch the man started sawing the branch that the owl was perched on with the objective of the branch breaking and falling to the ground to be caught by Josh, the female carer and another man who were under the tree.
After the branch was
sawn through, the branch came down with the owl attached. The owl was cushioned by a few hands and the water and seemed unhurt and content being in the carer’s hands. We could now see clearly the rusty large hook had somehow pieced through the lower part of its beak. A man had a pair of wire cutters and within a snip of the rusty metal the owl was free and the carer was now able to take it home to be looked after until it fully recovers.
In the meantime there was a lot of fishing line still attached to the tree branches so Josh climbed the ladder with the help of the saw on the net handle and cleared as much of the fishing line off the branches as he dare reach.
The lady who called it in was very happy with the outcome and so was everyone else as the rescue had attracted a bit of a crowd by then.
