Wildlife caregivers perform a procedure on an owl who was found in concrete.
Kyle Melnick
The baby owl that Bart Richwalski picked up in the fall was unlike anything the wildlife rehabilitator had seen. The bird had become trapped in a truck-mounted concrete mixer, leaving hardened concrete caked across the owl’s small body, from his face to his tail feathers.
“Oh, boy,” Richwalski recalled thinking. “What are we going to do with this owl?”
Richwalski took the owl to the Utah wildlife sanctuary where he works. He and other caregivers spent days meticulously removing the concrete with forceps, toothbrushes and dish soap.
