This Eastern screech owl is ready for release on Sept. 11 as Tim Thompson, a volunteer Critter Courier for the Conservancy’s von Arx Wildlife Hospital, prepares to let the bird take flight along a line of trees near the Pelican Marsh lanai where the owl was found by new homeowners about two weeks prior. Photo by Kelly J. Farrell
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SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WILDLIFE
When nature calls, Critter Couriers deliver
During her first night in her recently purchased Pelican Marsh home in North Naples, Andrea Sullivan awakened at 3 a.m. to the sound of a thud on her lanai.