It can be really hard to get any work done with someone staring at you, right?
Well, these students at Trident Technical College had that exact problem.
Notebooks out, desks cleaned, and their minds ready to learn – if not for the strange visitor who decided to observe them from the window.
Now don’t worry, the visitor watching these students was no malicious character.
It wasn’t even a person. Try about 5 and a half feet shorter than a person, and add some feathers and a beak too.
These students were being watched by a baby owl from outside the window.
But to their credit, the owl had a pretty ominous-looking stare even if it meant no harm.
It was a baby great horned owl that had fallen out of its nest. It somehow ended up on the school campus and decided to peek into the classrooms.
The owlet fell on the floors of building 920 of the school grounds.
This happened back in March and caused quite a scene on school grounds.
Great horned owls are just as great as their name implies. They’re the largest owls in North America by mass.
This little one might have taken a nasty fall.
Though he was clearly okay, they’d still need the opinion of an expert.
So the folks at Center for Birds Of Prey took him in for a checkup and returned him when all was well.
When the little one grows up, he’ll be a predator of any unsuspecting mouse, hare, vole, or rabbit in the area. Great horned owls are excellent nocturnal predators, largely thanks to their huge eyes like the ones these students saw peering at them from the window.
And just who were the ones who picked up the little own when he was spotted on school grounds? Well, they’d be Tom Craven and John Long.
In fact, it was John Long’s wife who assisted in driving the little hooter to the Center For Birds Of Prey.
When the baby owl was done with his checkup, it was time to bring him back where he belonged.
His parent might come back looking for him, so they made sure to seat him right back in the tree he fell out of.
Now, he sits on the same branch he fell from. All while classes and courses go on inside the school building. I wonder if he’ll get to see some people graduate!
“After a stay at the Center for the Birds of Prey, the baby owl came home to reunite with its family.” wrote Trident Technical College on Facebook
They haven’t given the little one a name, as far as I know.
One person even suggested making college T-shirts with his face on them to really solidify him as part of the school. Doesn’t sound like a bad idea!
And in a few months, the campus gets some free pest control while the owl gets free meals. It’s a win-win situation, isn’t it?
Watch the video below of when he was returned to his tree branch.
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