B.C. photographer saves owl after seeing it hit by a car while he was taking its picture [Video]

Murray Zelt was enjoying photographing a northern pygmy owl hunting a vole near 100 Mile House in B.C.’s Cariboo, about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver, when he watched the tiny raptor get hit by a car on Highway 97.

“I’m elated seeing it with this prey and just in awe and wonder, and next thing you know, this car exactly at that time nails it dead-on on the highway, and it’s doing highway speed.”

He says he watched in horror as the bird bounced on the road, and its prey flew out of its talons, and he knew he wanted to get the owl off the road if possible.

After watching a second vehicle, a truck, nearly hit the bird, he was able to run out and grab the bird in his bare hands.

“It’s just lifeless in my hand, and I literally had tears in my eyes.”

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