Thursday, 28 January 2021

Shotgun Cottage

 


The Alhambra Court Hotel is a short walk from York’s Museum Gardens. We might have stayed there if we didn’t live half an hour away. It’s a quaint family-run, family-friendly affair, and they provide a full English breakfast: fried eggs, fried toast, sausage, bacon, the works. All that frying means their kitchen uses an extractor fan. The hotel’s owner noticed odd noises coming from the fan last week. The noises turned out to be a very unhappy trapped owl. RSPCA were called, and the owl was extracted from the extractor fan. "The fan was sticky and covered in grease which made it harder for the bird to free herself," said the owl’s rescuer. The bird was taken to Ryedale Rehab and given a Green Fairy (dish soap) bath. “She wasn’t impressed by the bath, but she looks and feels much better.” She’ll stay at Ryedale until a vet clears her to be released. Hopefully the fan’s been thoroughly cleaned, too.

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