From Owl Rescue Centre

We were called out this afternoon to rescue a Spotted Eagle Owl with a broken wing hiding within an Eucalyptus forest at Orient Airfield near Magaliesburg. Myself and Gavin, one of the resident pilots reckoned that we would find the owl without the help of Flash.

Half an hour later we gave up and politely asked blue eyes for his assistance. It took him exactly 54 seconds to pick up the scent trail and locate the bird. Gavin was suitably impressed. I was as well actually, seen as just an hour before there was a huge thunderstorm, which normally would hinder tracking.

Third photo is of where Flash found the owl, the owl is in the photo. And now you can see why it was difficult for us humans.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      I mean, I did spot it. (took a moment, though, and if I didn’t know there was an owl…)

      But like. Yes. I would call Flash. what a good boi.

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
            6·
            2 months ago

            Nah, having a day of pranks is the real evil. Since I spend all my free time reading stuff, everything to read that day is fake, so I feel it wastes the whole day for me as I can’t go to any website. I’d rather everyone just gets allowed one prank a year and once you use it, it’s done until next Jan 1. That’d space them out much better.

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              the two best april fools pranks I ever did…

              The first first was, at a time when there was a property next door to where I worked getting developed. The thing was they had to start early for permitting but weren’t actually ready to, so they ‘started’ by ripping up the pavement and leaving a giant sandbox. That was in like late fall, then april rolled around, still a giant sandbox. I put up a big poster saying “FUTURE GROUND HOG HABITAT”, with some nice graphics and a photo hilariously ripped off the internet.

              People were pissed.

              The other best was at a different account, where I was known for ‘epic’ april fools pranks. So that year, I hyped up quietly. made a show of setting something up. Had all kinds of fun with it. Then… nothing. People were walking around looking for it. some on eggshells. (I do my best to make sure my pranks are everyone laughing at the end. nothing gets destroyed, no feelings get hurt.)

              • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
                3·
                2 months ago

                I like the groundhog habitat.

                My work area is outside and open on one wall for ventialtion. They started remodeling last March, but for unknown reasons have never finished it and nobody has worked on anything in months. The first thing they did was rip down the anti-bird netting on the rafters, and immediatetly a number of finches moved into the various nooks and crannies. I have now had up to 4 families of birds at any given time chirping endlessly and all crapping all over my stuff, and they don’t want to reinstall the netting until they’re “done”, and they are over a year behind now on the job…

                I feel pranked. 😒

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
        3·
        2 months ago

        Hah, the comments section on the original post was saying much the same!

        It looks to be a screenshot from a video of them and the dog flushing the owl out. It hops out into the middle of that dirt road in the background. So it’s not a camera photo, it’s probably just the autofocus working as they’re walking.