{"id":198265,"date":"2025-10-14T00:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198265\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:41:07","slug":"north-sea-oil-rig-workers-rescue-owl-blown-out-to-sea-during-storm-amy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198265\/","title":{"rendered":"North Sea oil rig workers rescue owl blown out to sea during Storm Amy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short-haired owl, which found itself stuck on an oil rig after being blown off course during Storm Amy, is being looked after by animal rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>The bird landed on the Noble Patriot, 180 miles east of Shetland, in a state of exhaustion after battling the strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>The bird was looked after by platform workers before being flown by helicopter into Sumburgh airport on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/94252ae19653deeaf733566a27fd6753-1760373839.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   alt=\"The owl was found to be 'exhausted'\"\/>Hillswick Wildlife SanctuaryThe owl was found to be \u2018exhausted\u2019 Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary<\/p>\n<p>It was then picked up by the Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary in Shetland and taken to a local vet.<\/p>\n<p>The bird was found to be in good shape but underweight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0d85050b08dbcbda91c9df54a42baa76-1760373850.jpeg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   alt=\"The bird was found to be in good shape but underweight\"\/>Hillswick Wildlife SanctuaryThe bird was found to be in good shape but underweight Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary<\/p>\n<p>The charity said the owl has now been taken to stay with a local ornithologist to be \u201cfattened up\u201d before being released back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A short-haired owl, which found itself stuck on an oil rig after being blown off course during Storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-198265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}