A remarkable video has emerged from Duluth, Minnesota of a man rescuing a stranded snowy owl from the ice on Lake Superior.<br /><br />Local birder Richard Hoeg first noticed the owl on the ice at dawn on December 3 but initially did not think the bird was in trouble. <br /><br />However, when Hoeg returned to the same location at 1pm, the owl was still there and a walker told him that her dogs had been over to the owl and it had not moved.<br /><br />"At this point I knew the snowy was in trouble," Hoeg said. "It should have flown away to escape the dogs."<br /><br />Now, Hoeg decided to try to rescue the owl. <br /><br />He waded out through broken ice and then, using a fishing net attached to a long pole with duct tape, he managed to carefully pull the bird off the ice and into his hands.<br /><br />The owl was wrapped in a blanket and taken to the Wildwoods wildlife rehabilitation centre in Duluth.
