As soon as you get the eyes covered, they're babies. |
I think, if nothing else, it gave us some legitimacy. |
It did get the word out to a lot more people about the owl and how fragile their environment is. |
It's a big problem. No one is quite sure how it's going to be attacked. They do eat a lot of local wildlife. |
It's a good Cape Coral-centered event. Education doesn't always have to be tedious and painful. |
It's not going to cut their taxes in half, but maybe they could get a $50 credit. |
Sometimes being a friend to wildlife means you can't always be friendly to all forms of wildlife. |
The problem is when he gets to the point that other people would say I don't want him anymore and throw him in a field. He won't get that chance. |
These guys could do well in an urban area. They are foragers. |
They're a species of special concern. They're not knocking on extinction's door, but they're not far off. |
They've been popping up a little earlier. I'd say about 10 percent have hatched already, at most. That's just a ballpark figure. |
This has been an ever-increasing problem. Now it's expanding and they're turning up everywhere. |
We're elated. The more times the owl is mentioned, the more aware people get about it. The more recognition, the better. |
We're not going to tie ourselves to trees or have sit-ins or any of that. But we're probably going to be sending out letters and going to council meetings. |
You take the eggs and shake them kind of violently. You're not playing games there. |