Our Story, and we're sticking to it....

So with advice from the Audubon society and our local wildlife advisor Seth, pictured below,

we embark on a mission to restore this wild beast to its natural habitat.

The nest the beast fell from is well over 80 feet in the pine canopy and we only have a 30 foot 

ladder.   Immediately ruling out any possibility of placing it back in it's original nest, we set out to build

it a new home.  Using common household materials, including a nice big blue basket donated by

our neighbors Sharon and Craig, plywood, nails and screws, Seth and I constructed the 'Blue Nest'

pictured below on my head.  The reason I have a leather jacket, gloves, goggles and a Helmet on is not to

try to look 'cool' (I recognize that it's not 'cool' looking) but to protect myself from the little beasts big parents,

who carefully were monitoring us from very high altitude.  The Audubon warned us that if we tried to

cut corners, the overseers of the project would quickly 'take down' those responsible, taking no prisoners. 

The reason the basket is on my head is because my brother John said he wanted

a picture of me with a basket and an owl on my head.  None of my protective gear could

protect me from the wrath of my big brother so I did as I was told.

Carefully clinging to the aluminum rails of the ladder I pull myself up the ladder rung by rung, not

even daring to look down.  (Anyone who knows me knows that I am deathly afraid of heights)  I

secure the modular Blue Nest to the branch of a tree that Kim picked out.  I wanted a lower

branch.  Before getting the Occupancy Permit, the inspector made us improve the design

by adding a yellow rope to stabilize the platform.  Down the ladder, then up once again with

the bird in one hand, the other clinging with white knuckles to the safety of the aluminum rail.

And so the world spins around again, not quite the same as yesterday.  Order has been restored in

the wilds of Westford.  Doesn't this thing look happy in the next picture?

And with the job complete, the freedom fighters press onward  to the next challenge

wherever owls are in harms way.  24x7

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So far the little guy's parents have not come to visit their kid in it's new home. Un-appreciative Deadbeats!!!