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From the RSPCA site:


If an injured animal is found, please contact the RSPCA 24-hour cruelty and advice line 0300 1234 999 and be ready to provide details of the animal and its precise location. Where possible and safe to do so, confine the animal and/or stay with it, keeping it quiet, still and warm. Do NOT attempt to feed or give water to any injured animal.


The Society relies entirely on voluntary donations, so please understand that its resources are far more limited than the other emergency services. The Society will always do its best to help an animal in need.



See also http://www.rspca.org.uk/allaboutanimals/wildlife/injuredanimals/-/article/WLD_InjuredAnimals

Goodliz

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Panic over - a happy ending. it was just stunned and has now flown away. Well done to the school boy from Kingsdale who knocked on the door to tell us it had fallen from the roof. A cat or crow could have easily got it whilst it was lying htere.


We put it in a recycling box and released it in our garden.


It was so beautiful - wish i'd got a pic.

:))

Loz

Loz

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This reminds me of 'Blanche', from Captain Beaky...


A baby owl, whose name was Blanche

Perched bravely on a narrow branch

And wondered whether she should try

To jump up and attempt to fly...


She bravely counted up to ten

And then, she counted ten again

She jumped! She found she couldn't fly

And lay there, looking at the sky


"It's lucky that that branch", said she

"was on the ground, and not the tree."


Then off she ran and flapped her wings

And said "These are most awkward things

"For though I skip and jump quite high

"I'm still no nearer to the sky..."


And falling down, she gave a howl

And wished she'd never been an owl.

And finally her mother found her

And put a great big wing around her

And said "Dear Blanche, don't be upset!

You haven't grown your feathers yet."

corinne R

corinne R

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Sue Wrote:

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> How on earth could an owl fall off a roof?

>

> They have wings!

>

> Very glad this had a happy ending, I've never seen

> an owl in London, used to see barn owls when I

> lived on a farm.



We live at the edge of Sydenham Hill Woods and have a couple of owls in the back garden, its fabulous!!!

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