Lisle Family Saves Owl Family, Builds Birds 'Penthouse'

When tree serviceman Bill Zrout discovered a great horned owlet who fell from a nest in Lisle residents Curt and Kate Petersen's yard last Monday, the three (and Zrout's employees) embarked on a campaign to save the owlet and build the whole own family a new nest, the Chicago Tribune reports.

According to the paper, the rescuers sheltered the fallen owlet in a cardboard box and fed it leftover chicken liver; the baby's sibling also later fell from the shaky nest, and both would later be hosted up to a new, sturdier nest made of grass, a burlap sack and an apple crate.

"We spent most of the day just keeping an eye on it," Curt Petersen, 65, told the paper, of the original owlet. "It just stood in one spot and never moved... They've got a penthouse now."

Read the full story at the Chicago Tribune website.