My home in McHenry, IL. was surrounded by a wooded area and the trees, some of them, were over 100 years old.
One morning while going out to walk Shadow, my Doberman, I saw what looked to be a baseball size ball of cotton in my driveway, and the dog freaked. I had to make him sit and stay while I checked it out, you see the cotton ball was moving... It turned out to be a baby owl, and the cutest thing I ever saw. I couldn't spot the mother or see a nest so I put it in a box and called the bird sanctuary. A woman and man came and looked and looked for the nest to no avail so took the little fluffy white baby with them to the sanctuary where it would lve out its life... They are such gently birds, and so beautiful too.