EAST DURHAM – Employees at an East Durham antique store had to look twice when they saw something extremely lifelike on a shelf next to a chicken cookie jar.
State Encon Officer Milliron took a closer look and noticed it was a sleepy Eastern Screech Owl perched on the shelf. He cradled the sleeping bird to remove it from the store and released it into the woods, where it flew to a nearby tree. That species of owl is nocturnal and typically nests in tree cavities, not store shelves, the State DEC noted.
There was no way he got inside the store where he was found earlier this week.
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