One of the joys of being a rural veterinarian is that one never knows what will walk through the door. A client with an injured owl on their porch called. They described the owl as a small owl. Imagine my surprise when she carried in a barn owl! From her description of several owls flying around their house this summer and two owls hissing and clicking at them when working on an out building, I suspect she had a successful breeding pair on site in Jeffrerson County. I hope to confirm that for the BBAII this spring. For those intersted in such things, he/she weighed 460 gm, body condition thin, dehydrated, stool very dark and loose, large numbers of double operculated eggs in stool (lung worm/ whip worm?), an injury to the skin between shoulder and elbow (several days old), sores on both hocks (likely from rubbing while trying to fly), normal radiographs. The most aggressive of any owl or hawk I have ever had in the clinic. Thinks nothing of lunging with beak chomping or feet flying! I gave fluids, antibiotics and the first dose of dewormer. The bird will be with me until Thursday, if eating he/she will go to rehab, if not, on to an avain veterinarian for full workup and treatment. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]