A great horned owl trapped in lacrosse netting on the Wheat Ridge High School campus was rescued and sent to the Birds of Prey Foundation in Broomfield to be evaluated.
The distressed owl was found Wednesday morning and the high school’s resource officer, Joe Mallory, and two community resource officers, Tim Haines and Tristian Siemek, carefully cut the netting and freed the bird.
“He’s doing ok, I think he is sore,” said Heidi Bucknam, with the foundation, of the owl. “He really tangled himself up and fought it for a long time.”
Bucknam described the owl’s condition as stable and said that it’s too early to tell if and when the bird might be released from the nonprofit’s care.
If all goes well with the owl in rehabilitation, it will be released back in the Wheat Ridge area, police said.
Last July, a great horned owl died in Wheat Ridge when the bird got stuck on a utility pole with its talon caught in an electrical box.
