By Niki Desautels

Town Crier Editorial Intern

The Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley released two great horned owls into the wild at San Antonio Park, July 31.

A resident found the owls as nestlings and turned them in to the Pennisula Humane Society for rehabilitation. Wildlife volunteers Lisa Konie and Tracie Spehar prepared the owls for their return to the wild.

“I started by tossing dead mice into their habitat, I could see them watching the food,” Spehar said. “It taught them the idea of moving food. After that, we would feed them live mice, and they caught nearly all of them.”

For three weeks before their release, the owls lived in a habitat at Spehar’s house. The habitat was full of all the amenities of nature, and the owls had little to no cantact with humans except at meals.