May 24, 2012 at 5:45 a.m.
| Updated May 24, 2012 at 5:45 a.m.
olds up a barn owl after taking it from its crate and preparing to let it fly loose in a barn in Folk. Jeanne Sinquefield contacted the agency and agreed to house four of the birds of prey in the family's old barn on their Osage County property. She wants to help re-establish the owl in the area, so she will be feeding the birds mice for the next week or so until they are let out of the barn to hunt on their own.
FOLK, Mo. - Four times, Jeanne Sinquefield held the Teddy Bear-sized barn owl, looking into its "cutest face" before letting it go inside her Bloody Island barn in rural Osage County.
The lightweight raptors opened their amazingly broad wingspan and were gone.
For a second time, Sinquefield has taken on the responsibility of providing a release habitat for barn owls "hacked" through the St. Louis-based World Bird Sanctuary.
