Savannah’s Park and Tree Department was poised to remove a dying Southern red oak tree from the city’s iconic Forsyth Park when the tree’s residents made them rethink that plan.
“I don’t know if it was the mother owl or the father owl, but they were not too happy about it,” said Scott DeArmey, assistant director of the Savannah Park and Tree Department.
The agitated bird, with its greater than 3-foot wingspan, expressed its displeasure by swooping down on a city worker headed to the treetop in the bucket of the lift truck…