{"id":420266,"date":"2026-02-11T17:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:22:07","slug":"leatherhead-charity-rescues-owls-found-sleeping-in-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420266\/","title":{"rendered":"Leatherhead charity rescues owls found sleeping in home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pair of owls are being nursed back to health after homeowners awoke to find one sleeping on their chandelier and the other hanging from their curtains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey-based Wildlife Aid said it was &#8220;one of our most unexpected rescues&#8221; as it helped the pair of tawny owls which had come down a chimney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birds were collected and the charity&#8217;s vets found they had surface-level scratches on their eyes which they likely to have been picked up in the fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re now receiving treatment and recovering well. We believe they&#8217;re a bonded male and female pair, and we&#8217;re hopeful they&#8217;ll be released back to the wild together just in time for spring,&#8221; a charity spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of owls are being nursed back to health after homeowners awoke to find one sleeping on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-420266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420266","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=420266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}