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A Kentucky family gets an early gift: a baby owl in their Christmas tree

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A Kentucky family gets an early gift: a baby owl in their Christmas tree

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Superbowl@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

One Kentucky family got a little something extra when they picked out their Christmas tree this year: a baby owl.

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I do a lot of posting from apps - the one I prefer to use is still implementing parts of the API. I should just go online and crosspost until the app has that feature. I’ll make that effort from now on.

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