Rocky the Xmas tree stowaway owl returns to the wild | FOX 4 Kansas Town WDAF-Television set

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Rocky the stowaway owl is back again in the wild.

The small Noticed-whet owl was named Rockefeller after it was located by a worker setting up the vacation tree Nov. 16 at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Heart. The owl was evidently trapped in the 75-foot-tall (23-meter-tall) Norway spruce when it was reduce down 170 miles (275 kilometers) north, in upstate New York on Nov. 12.

The female owl, initially considered to be male, was unhurt but hadn’t eaten for at least 3 days when she was found and despatched to Ravensbeard Wildlife Heart in the Hudson Valley town of Saugerties. There, a rehabilitator nursed her back to wellbeing for a week with a lot of mice in advance of Rocky was cleared to proceed her migratory journey south.

On Tuesday night, rehabilitator Ellen Kalish held the winsome raptor aloft in a industry versus a backdrop of rounded mountains. In a video clip posted on Ravensbeard’s Facebook page, Rocky sits quietly on Kalish’s fingers ahead of winging her way around to a nearby grove of pines.

“She is a hard tiny fowl and we’re satisfied to see her back again in her organic habitat,” the middle wrote on Facebook. “We are absolutely sure that Rocky will really feel your really like and guidance via her journey south.”