A Padre Island family who hosted a nesting Great Horned Owl and her babies on their back patio received a special goodbye before the birds took to the skies.
The story began in February when the mother owl nested on a ledge in Jess and Heather Slaughter’s backyard. She laid three eggs in the area. The Migratory Bird Act of 1918 made it illegal to remove the owls.
Padre Island family gets a special goodbye from the Great Horned Owls that nested on their back patio
Jess and Heather Slaughter watched the owls grow from three small eggs in February until they were ready to leave the nest.
“We watched these birds be born and we watched them raise up and grow,” Heather Slaughter said…