Bart Wyszwolski

The owl came to us through a phone call from the Department of Wildlife Resources, who picked up the owl from someone who found it in a concrete mixer at a construction site.

When we got the owl back to our rehab center, we found that he was quite covered in dried concrete, and it was primarily on his right side, but for the most part, his entire body had some concrete within it.

We initially started by taking hemostats and forceps and crushing the bigger pieces of concrete very gently and then using our fingertips to crumble away the smaller pieces.

And then after each session, which lasts about 20 minutes, we would bathe him in Dawn dish soap and water and rinse him and dry him thoroughly.

So the long-term prognosis for this guy looks really good.

We do need to wait until he molts and gets in healthier feathers so he can fly silently.

But we expect that to happen late next spring, early summer.