<p>There we were driving along the country lane between Wighton and Walsingham in North Norfolk. A bright February afternoon. A partridge runs along the road in front of us before hopping into the verge. And lying in the road a short distance further on a bird has been hit by a vehicle</p>

<p>“That looked like an owl” says Dawn; and a look in the rear view finder confirms this.</p>

<p>“Looked pretty recent” I stop the car, “think I’ll check it’</p>

<p>I reverse down the road, stopping to let cars pass in each direction, the one heading towards the owl bothers me. Would it run it over? Reverse a bit more and stop, walking the remaining 50 yards or so. Another car heads towards the owl, sees what I’m doing to and gives the bird a wide birth.</p>

<p>I reach the owl. It looks ‘whole.’ Blood around it’s beak, one wing stretched out. I grasp the body, it is warm and I feel movement. It’s still alive!. Carefully, I fold the wing against it’s body and gently hold the bird as I return to the car.</p>

<p>Wrapping it a car rug, to keep it warm, I lay the bird in the boot and we set off again towards Fakenham in the hope of finding a vet. Before asking in a Fakenham shop I check the owl. Alas, it is cold and very still. I deduce that it has died. We set off for home.</p>

<p>At home, I prepare a cardboard box to put the owl in. My plan; to contact an appropriate ‘raptor’ body the next day. I unfold the blanket but the owl grasps it in it’s talons and I see it breathing. It’s alive!</p>

<p>A telephone call to the local vets and I am told to take it in and they’ll check it over, keep it over night if ok and contact a raptor sanctuary the next day.</p>

<p>We arrive at the Vet’s surgery, I open the boot and……………..there sits the owl with his back to the boot lid. I quickly secure it, expecting a hefty peck but he’s still pretty subdued. We hand it over the vet’s nurse…….and that’s that.</p>

<p>I’ll post an update when I find out what the outcome is.</p>

<p>What a wonderful bird – my favourite as it happens and a privilege to have given it a chance. Hopefully, it will make a full recovery and soon be hunting across the fields of Norfolk – like the other THREE Barn Owls we saw on the same journey today.</p>

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