Owl rescued from Prince Edward Island field to be taken to Nova Scotia for treatment

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As darkness descended and temperatures plunged in a Prince Edward Island field, Dennis MacKenzie tried to coax a scared, injured barred owl down from a spruce…

He had no plans to visit the field in Crapaud, P.E.I., en route to drop his sons off for a basketball game at their school, but he was struck when his car lights picked out a little head bobbing in and out of a ditch along the roadside.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

“By this point it had moved on. I found its tracks and could locate it because it was dragging it’s wing, it was hopping. There was a wing mark as well, along in the snow.”Article content Gallant said she arrived to find MacKenzie standing with his car lights blinking by the side of a road. They eventually found the brown and white striped bird hiding in the branches of a “very old, beat up, prickly spruce tree,” she said.Article content

In her 48 years as an animal rescuer, Gallant said she’s caught an average of one owl once every four or five years. Over the past 12 months, however, she said she’s rescued nine.“Apparently their population is growing to the point where now we’re finding them being hit by cars and in people’s backyards,” she said.Article content

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