Kim and I received a telephone call from Cleveland Police Department about 11pm last night (Friday Nov 23) that "an injured owl is sitting by the roadside at 117th Street and I-90." Not having permits for injured birds, we called Cleveland Metroparks naturalist and licensed falconer Jeff Riebe, who found the bird in short order and reported that it is an apparently UNINJURED but extremely thin juvenile SNOWY OWL, to my knowledge the first of the 2007-2008 winter season on the north coast. Jeff reports this morning that the bird took electrolytes last night, and eagerly scarfed down a fresh mouse this morning. The bird is being transferred to Mona Rutgers today (Saturday) and pending a successful recovery, will be released in a few weeks. It might be a good time to start scanning Burke and other known Snowy locations for other birds! Good birding.... Bob Bob Hinkle, Chief Naturalist Cleveland Metroparks Solon, Ohio Kim Hinkle ODNR Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator (specializing in flying squirrels, not owls!) ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]