Owl Post

[babynick34]

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From: babynick34
Subject: Owl Post
Date: 8/5/00 8:36 pm  (ET)

Hi all

Sorry, this is going to be quite a bit off topic... but I feel that I
have to tell someone, and as I consider you lot are sort of family... I
hope you don't mind.

A sad thing happened while I was working tonight. At around 12.30 GMT-1,
I heard strange noices... and soon recognised one of the noices being
the hoot of an owl. I went to investigate and heard a sort of wimper -
that's the best way I can describe it, followed by little hoots every
now and then. After about 10 minutes, it all went quiet.

What I think had happened, was that an owl... probably a baby one... had
fallen down the chimney - getting stuck at some point, as the sound echoed
from the fireplaces. It was so sad to hear the noices of the owl trying
to free itself and trying to get attention. I could do nothing to help -
not my house, no idea how to access the chimney, could not do anything
from the fireplaces. As time went on, the noices got quieter and with
longer gaps between the hoots... by ten minutes it had stopped altogether.

I don't know why this event has made me feel sad. It's never happened
before so I don't know how I would have reacted if I had not read the
Harry Potter books... but since I have read the books, and fallen in
love with owls, this event has touched a raw nerve.

One way of looking at it I suppose is that the only thing we know for
certain will happen in our or a living creatures life is... death. One
day we all die, though not all of us stuck in a chimney.

Sorry for the sad tale, but I just had to share with someone... and it
was sort of topical.

Nick